> Abuse mailboxes are already checked. What matters for abuse > management is whether reports are acted on. This policy doesn't > address that. > > If the RIPE NCC is instructed to send 6-monthly reminders to all abuse > contacts with the implicit threat that if they aren't acted on in the > way specified in this policy, that the organisation in question can > look forward to having their addressing resources vapourised, this > will aggravate the RIPE NCC membership and corrode community trust in > the organisation. The one thing it won't do is make abuse management > better. > > Internet abuse management is not something that you're going to fix by > beating LIRs with sticks, and if they don't react, that you threaten > to beat them harder. > > Separate to this, it's inappropriate to micromanage the NCC in RIPE > policy. It would be good if the RIPE working groups stopped trying to > tell the RIPE NCC people how to do their jobs.
spot on, sad to say. randy
