On Thu 26/Jul/2012 12:51:38 +0200 Denis Walker wrote:
On 26/07/2012 12:17, "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" wrote:
On 26 Jul 2012, at 10:01, Denis Walker wrote:
From the RIPE NCC website you can find an Abuse Finder tool http://apps.db.ripe.net/search/abuse-finder.html
This is a first iteration of a user tool to help with finding abuse contact information in the RIPE Database. It tries to find the abuse contact(s) for an Internet resource on a 'best effort' basis.
I tried that now. It's very confusing.
It's not at all clear if the search box will take an IP address or not ..
That is a good point. People 'within the registration business' know what an Internet resource is and know what we mean by primary key. To more general users (including the public), these terms may not mean anything. In fact 'key' may even be interpreted as 'password'. We will make that more clear.
While making things clear is always meritorious, end users should be encouraged to signal abuse to some reporting hub. They should prompt their mailbox providers to implement such service, rather than doing it themselves. In the words of RFC 6650: Rather than generating feedback reports themselves, MUAs SHOULD create abuse reports and send these reports back to their Mailbox Providers so that they can generate and send ARF messages on behalf of end users (see Section 3.2 of [RFC6449]). This allows centralized processing and tracking of reports, and provides training input to filtering systems. There is, however, no standard mechanism for this signaling between MUAs and Mailbox Providers to trigger abuse reports. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6650#section-5.3