Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg




On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Gert Doering wrote:


Hi,

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 02:18:25PM +, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

It would be an interesting sight to see the chairman and exec board of ripe 
summoned before a parliament or court to explain the situation.


You love to summon up dire legal consequences for the RIPE NCC if this
policy isn't coming into place.

Over here in Europe, we're not used to just sueing anyone for anything we
do not like and actually having chance in succeeding with it.  Unless
the RIPE NCC is actually *tasked* with "ensuring routing correctness"


Hi,

RIPE NCC isn't tasked with that, i agree.

It is also not tasked in ensuring that party A is just using their own 
numbering resources.


But 2019-03 also doesn't mandate that the RIPE NCC should start verifying 
that randomly. It just opens the door for someone to report a 
(suspected) resource hijack, and if a large set of circumstances are 
aligned, it may open the door to a membership status review -- which won't 
even happen at the first time... according to the current set of policies.




(which it isn't) whether or not someone configures their router correctly
cannot construct a liability for the NCC.


Maybe it can be a liability if the party responsible for the numbering 
resources administration does nothing and let's the hijacks run free...



Some years ago i had an issue with another RIR about one of its members 
adding *our address* to one of their netblocks.
That registry (whois) entry was clearly forged (the network wasn't and 
never was running at our address) and it took months to have this 
corrected with the people who forged the entry and the RIR in question 
didn't really help. If we had financial losses due to this incorrect 
entry, wouldn't it be normal to sue also the RIR for not aiding in solving 
this "address hijack" that hit the registry database???





Now, if the NCC neglects to secure their *registry*, and people can
use this neglect to attack others, this might be a valid case to bring
forward...


Big Kudos to those who have worked hard to try to close this gap lately 
(also through policy proposals) -- you know who you are... :-))



Regards,
Carlos



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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg



On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Nick Hilliard wrote:


Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 19/04/2019 15:03:
Would you find reasonable to have the rule/policy in place say for 2 or 3 
years, and then evaluate its impact/efectiveness...?


No.  In principle, the proposal is completely broken, antithetical to the 
RIPE NCC's obligations of being an address registry and Randy was right to 
point out that it is a proposal for a kangaroo court.  We don't need to make 
the mistake of testing it out to make sure.


Hi,

This question was just to express that noone really knows if the impact on 
abuse will be significant, minimal or none (but it seems there are people 
trying to state something without real data to back it up).


I would also like to read Gert's opinion on this.



It will not have any material impact on hijacking;


Oh, so you do have the data...?



there are better ways of handling hijacking


Such as...?


and the proposal will have a wide variety of serious but unintended side 
effects, some of which have been raised on this mailing list.


Do you care to list them, so we can work on their mitigation?
(i mean, those who have been raised in a disperse way in this list and 
those who haven't been raised yet)



And it's unimplementable - the board of the RIPE NCC would have a fiduciary 
duty to refuse to implement it.


Because you say so.

What i've heard from the Board so far on the list -- and the Board 
currently has seven members -- was a concern expressed by Piotr about 
timelines, which i think we have addressed in v2.0's text (which i 
also hope to see published soon).



Best Regards,
Carlos



Nick


[anti-abuse-wg] funny haha

2019-04-19 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette


Joke of the Day.

I wonder if the pink box on this page has anything to do with my
recent mention of this company here:

https://bgp.he.net/AS205869#_asinfo

It would appear that perhaps these folks:

   https://bgp.he.net/AS205869#_peers

may have finally concluded that being the one and only remaining peer
of a known criminal enterprise may not have been all that wonderful,
you know, from a corporate PR perspective.





Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Gert Doering
Hi,

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 02:52:48PM +, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> They had a fiduciary duty not to hand out whole /14s of v4 space to snowshoe 
> spammers set up as eastern european LIRs not too long back

As long as spamming is a perfectly legal business in the appropriate 
jurisdiction, it consists a valid requirement for IPv4 space.

The RIPE NCC can not and MUST NOT decide what is "appropriate" use
of IP address space.  There is laws and courts to do that (and if a
LIR is convicted of criminal activity, they will be closed down).

But you know all this.

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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Gert Doering
Hi,

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 02:18:25PM +, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> It would be an interesting sight to see the chairman and exec board of ripe 
> summoned before a parliament or court to explain the situation.

You love to summon up dire legal consequences for the RIPE NCC if this
policy isn't coming into place.

Over here in Europe, we're not used to just sueing anyone for anything we
do not like and actually having chance in succeeding with it.  Unless
the RIPE NCC is actually *tasked* with "ensuring routing correctness"
(which it isn't) whether or not someone configures their router correctly
cannot construct a liability for the NCC.

Now, if the NCC neglects to secure their *registry*, and people can
use this neglect to attack others, this might be a valid case to bring
forward...

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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Randy Bush
> They had a fiduciary duty not to hand out whole /14s of v4 space to
> snowshoe spammers set up as eastern european LIRs not too long back

as i intended by my reference to martin niemöller, i suspect that's who
the net police/vigilantes will come for next.  and then ...  and then
...  it is incremental, each justifies the next.

the problem with making weapons is that they will be abused.  a good
piece on this the other day in the wapo,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/technology-can-be-put-to-good-use--or-hasten-the-demise-of-the-human-race/2019/04/09/c7af4b2e-56e1-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html

there are other means to deal with the hijacking problem without
becoming police, judge, jury, and prison all rolled into one.  push the
technical approaches.  use legal resources, the rule of law, before
trump erodes it entirely.

i hope we are above becoming a lynch mob.

randy



Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
They had a fiduciary duty not to hand out whole /14s of v4 space to snowshoe 
spammers set up as eastern european LIRs not too long back

They would now as well if such duty wasn't abdicated each time

The duty doesn't magically go away of course even if it is abdicated and denied


--srs


From: anti-abuse-wg  on behalf of Nick Hilliard 

Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 8:16 PM
To: Carlos Friaças
Cc: Gert Doering; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a 
RIPE Policy Violation)

Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 19/04/2019 15:03:
> Would you find reasonable to have the rule/policy in place say for 2 or
> 3 years, and then evaluate its impact/efectiveness...?

No. In principle, the proposal is completely broken, antithetical to
the RIPE NCC's obligations of being an address registry and Randy was
right to point out that it is a proposal for a kangaroo court. We don't
need to make the mistake of testing it out to make sure.

It will not have any material impact on hijacking; there are better ways
of handling hijacking and the proposal will have a wide variety of
serious but unintended side effects, some of which have been raised on
this mailing list. And it's unimplementable - the board of the RIPE NCC
would have a fiduciary duty to refuse to implement it.

Nick



Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Nick Hilliard

Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 19/04/2019 15:03:
Would you find reasonable to have the rule/policy in place say for 2 or 
3 years, and then evaluate its impact/efectiveness...?


No.  In principle, the proposal is completely broken, antithetical to 
the RIPE NCC's obligations of being an address registry and Randy was 
right to point out that it is a proposal for a kangaroo court.  We don't 
need to make the mistake of testing it out to make sure.


It will not have any material impact on hijacking; there are better ways 
of handling hijacking and the proposal will have a wide variety of 
serious but unintended side effects, some of which have been raised on 
this mailing list.  And it's unimplementable - the board of the RIPE NCC 
would have a fiduciary duty to refuse to implement it.


Nick



Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
For those saying "Dutch court" etc please do be careful what you're asking for.

Experience in two decades of anti abuse work says that if a particular form of 
abuse is allowed and even waved away so there's an enforcement gap, and that 
form of abuse is used to successfully attack something important and news 
making (lets say the European parliament or the defence forces of an EU 
country).  Plausible - people can hijack address space belonging to most 
anybody.

It would be an interesting sight to see the chairman and exec board of ripe 
summoned before a parliament or court to explain the situation.

--srs


From: anti-abuse-wg  on behalf of Carlos 
Friaças via anti-abuse-wg 
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 7:33 PM
To: Gert Doering
Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a 
RIPE Policy Violation)



On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
(...)
> But anyway: the point that Randy is making that this policy is neither
> common sense, nor effective in reducing abuse. So it's not the way to go.

Hi,

72 countries/economies in the service region (and in reality, the world),
so i suspect "common sense" might turn out to be a tricky concept... :-)

But in fact, i think most Internet users would say it's common sense to
have a rule saying that company A using resources held by company B
(intentionally and persistently) is not tolerable.

About effectiveness in reducing abuse: We don't have any data, we would
need to have the rule in place first... :-)

Would you find reasonable to have the rule/policy in place say for 2 or 3
years, and then evaluate its impact/efectiveness...?

Regards,
Carlos


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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg




Hi,

On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, ac wrote:

(...)

But anyway: the point that Randy is making that this policy is neither
common sense, nor effective in reducing abuse.  So it's not the way
to go.


so you are taking it upon yourself to attach your own opinion by
commenting on how you interpret the point(s) Randy is making?

how rude and presumptuous of yourself.

it seems many people (including myself) are rude, obnoxious, not
tolerant as well as very impolite and "unconsiderate"


Please let's not start with that...
(disclaimer: i value Gert's opinion on any Internet related subject as 
much as i value Randy's)




Anyway, to add my own interpretation, seeing as this is what we are now
reduced to, I am understanding that Randy is pointing out that when
2019-03 moves forward, this is common sense and not a "slippery slope"


It wasn't clear enough for me too at first, but i now clearly know that 
Randy objects 2019-03 (i.e. the potential "police state" and less energy 
in routing security).




*sigh* - this is one of the most commented on and longest suffering
thread(s) ever. It seems there are vested interests in ensuring that
RIPE does not exercise any administrative (or limited) authority and
only acts as a 'sort of' loose record or some sort of index of who may
possibly or potentially be assigned which public resources...


i.e. "land registry" has already been mentioned. Which is something i 
completely disagree, because, i don't see a (real) land registry as a 
member association, and having a role to actually distribute land -- among 
other details...





I just wish to add the one thing that I have not yet seen in the
thread(s):

I would propose that should RIR not act with administrative authority
we can expect world governments to legislate as chaos is not in the
best interests of civil society.


I'm not sure if that is the case for all governments in the world, but 
yes, i think that without enough self-regulation, some jurisdictions may 
perceive that more legislation is needed... so yes, i also see that risk.


Even from the individual perspective of an average Internet user, it could 
be hard to understand how resource hijackers are tolerated by the very 
same organisations that have administrative powers over said resources.



Regards,
Carlos



Andre





Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg




On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Gert Doering wrote:


Hi,


(...)

But anyway: the point that Randy is making that this policy is neither
common sense, nor effective in reducing abuse.  So it's not the way to go.


Hi,

72 countries/economies in the service region (and in reality, the world), 
so i suspect "common sense" might turn out to be a tricky concept... :-)


But in fact, i think most Internet users would say it's common sense to 
have a rule saying that company A using resources held by company B 
(intentionally and persistently) is not tolerable.


About effectiveness in reducing abuse: We don't have any data, we would 
need to have the rule in place first... :-)


Would you find reasonable to have the rule/policy in place say for 2 or 3 
years, and then evaluate its impact/efectiveness...?


Regards,
Carlos



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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg




On Thu, 18 Apr 2019, Fi Shing wrote:



What absolute crap. Why is that every time something resembling common sense 
enters this group, there are these people who insist on using slippery slop 
fallacy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

It wouldn't half surprise me if people like this "randy bush" are motivated by 
criminal groups. I cannot think of any reason, other than a criminal one, why someone 
would object to common sense policy that leads to a reduction in
abuse.

(Usually, there is one other motivation (financial) but not in this proposal).


Hi,

Please let me tell you that you are absolutely wrong about Randy Bush.

I co-authored another policy proposal together with Randy (and also some 
other people who have already objected to 2019-03) some years ago. 
Randy's contribution is always appreciated and (at least) i feel very 
lucky when he shows up at RIPE meetings, and i happen to be there too.


I hope this will destroy any doubt you may have about Randy:
https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/randy-bush

Let me also say that i think that energy into improving/deploying routing 
security (RPKI, MANRS, ...) should in any way be reduced just because of 
what 2019-03 proposes.


Randy's position is obviously not irrelevant for me, as other person who 
frequently brings as much value to the RIPE community as Randy does, 
already told me (in private), in even a less positive way.


Regards,
Carlos





   Original Message 
  Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking
  is a RIPE Policy Violation)
  From: Randy Bush 
  Date: Fri, April 19, 2019 1:55 am
  To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net

  < rant >

  this is insane. neither ripe nor the ncc should be the net police,
  courts, and prison rolled into one kangaroo court.

  it is droll that the erstwhile anti-abuse working group becomes a
  self-righteous abuser. so it is with so many abused children.

  put your energy into routing security not converting ripe and the ncc
  into an authoritarian state. we have enough of those.

  randy







Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Lu Heng
very well said Randy, +1

On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 at 11:33, Randy Bush  wrote:

> > so you are taking it upon yourself to attach your own opinion by
> > commenting on how you interpret the point(s) Randy is making?
> >
> > how rude and presumptuous of yourself.
>
> QED?  i wish folk would not resort to ad homina
>
> > it seems many people (including myself) are rude, obnoxious, not
> > tolerant as well as very impolite and "unconsiderate"
> >
> > Anyway, to add my own interpretation, seeing as this is what we are now
> > reduced to, I am understanding that Randy is pointing out that when
> > 2019-03 moves forward, this is common sense and not a "slippery slope"
>
> no.  gert was correct.  but you are correct in the sense that it is not
> a slippery slope.  it is the bottom of the slope.
>
> the slope started with insufficient diligence in registration services
> when dealing with some quite abusive actors.  next, in the process of
> cleaning it up, american style lawyers created the overreaching ripe-716
> to formalize a weapon to punish miscreants.  now folk in this wg wave
> the weapon around to punish others who might be miscreants of a
> different sort.
>
> a martin niemöller quote comes to mind.
>
> as does "the only winning move is not to play."
>
> randy, who thinks this is a sad day for the ripe community
>
>

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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Randy Bush
> so you are taking it upon yourself to attach your own opinion by
> commenting on how you interpret the point(s) Randy is making?
> 
> how rude and presumptuous of yourself.

QED?  i wish folk would not resort to ad homina

> it seems many people (including myself) are rude, obnoxious, not
> tolerant as well as very impolite and "unconsiderate"
> 
> Anyway, to add my own interpretation, seeing as this is what we are now
> reduced to, I am understanding that Randy is pointing out that when
> 2019-03 moves forward, this is common sense and not a "slippery slope"

no.  gert was correct.  but you are correct in the sense that it is not
a slippery slope.  it is the bottom of the slope.

the slope started with insufficient diligence in registration services
when dealing with some quite abusive actors.  next, in the process of
cleaning it up, american style lawyers created the overreaching ripe-716
to formalize a weapon to punish miscreants.  now folk in this wg wave
the weapon around to punish others who might be miscreants of a
different sort.

a martin niemöller quote comes to mind.

as does "the only winning move is not to play."

randy, who thinks this is a sad day for the ripe community



Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread ac
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:51:56 +0200
Gert Doering  wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 07:33:19PM -0700, Fi Shing wrote:
> > What absolute crap.
> > Why is that every time something resembling common sense enters
> > this group, there are these people who insist on using slippery
> > slop fallacy? > style=""> > mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="">
> 
> HTML-mails, top posted, on a mailing list that has a different mail 
> style.  Very impolite and unconsiderate.
> 
+1, but anyway...

> But anyway: the point that Randy is making that this policy is neither
> common sense, nor effective in reducing abuse.  So it's not the way
> to go.
> 
so you are taking it upon yourself to attach your own opinion by
commenting on how you interpret the point(s) Randy is making?

how rude and presumptuous of yourself.  

it seems many people (including myself) are rude, obnoxious, not
tolerant as well as very impolite and "unconsiderate"

Anyway, to add my own interpretation, seeing as this is what we are now
reduced to, I am understanding that Randy is pointing out that when
2019-03 moves forward, this is common sense and not a "slippery slope"

*sigh* - this is one of the most commented on and longest suffering
thread(s) ever. It seems there are vested interests in ensuring that
RIPE does not exercise any administrative (or limited) authority and
only acts as a 'sort of' loose record or some sort of index of who may
possibly or potentially be assigned which public resources...

I just wish to add the one thing that I have not yet seen in the
thread(s):

I would propose that should RIR not act with administrative authority
we can expect world governments to legislate as chaos is not in the
best interests of civil society.


Andre 



Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Gert Doering
Hi,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 07:33:19PM -0700, Fi Shing wrote:
> What absolute crap. Why is that 
> every time something resembling common sense enters this group, there are 
> these people who insist on using slippery slop fallacy? style=""> style=""> style=""> href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope; 
> style="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope style=""> style=""> style="">It wouldn't half surprise me if people like this "randy bush" are 
> motivated by criminal groups. I cannot think of any reason, other than a 
> criminal one, why someone would object to common sense policy that leads to a 
> reduction in abuse. mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="">(Usually, there is one other motivation 
> (financial) but not in this proposal). mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="">

HTML-mails, top posted, on a mailing list that has a different mail 
style.  Very impolite and unconsiderate.

But anyway: the point that Randy is making that this policy is neither
common sense, nor effective in reducing abuse.  So it's not the way to go.

Gert Doering
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