Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [aa-wg-chair] RIPE 78 Anti-Abuse WG Minutes

2019-09-10 Thread herve.clement
Hello Brian,

Many thanks for this report.
Having read the 2 paragraphs related to my comments, I confirm I've no issue.

Best regards

Hervé

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Colleagues,

Here are the draft minutes from RIPE 78. Please let us know if you have any 
issues or required changes.

Thanks,

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

Brian Nisbet
Service Operations Manager
HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 
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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vicarious liability / criminal negligence is also a thing in several 
jurisdictions so “let us do nothing and we won’t be liable” doesn’t always work.

--srs


From: Nuno Vieira 
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 5:11 PM
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cc: Sérgio Rocha; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE 
Policy Violation)

Unfortunately yes. However it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t discuss this, work 
on solutions and don’t let this die.

Some interim solutions might be good to be deployed, like warp. At least they 
would serve as statistic or wall of shame.

This might only see the sunlight when some government, regulator or some 
“critical” infrastructure around here gets hijacked, and the collaborative 
isps/upstreams properly bashed and prosecuted.

Nuno Vieira

No dia 10/09/2019, às 12:26, Suresh Ramasubramanian  
escreveu:

> You are right. I have very little hope of anything concrete coming out of 
> this process, however.
>
> On 10/09/19, 4:04 PM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sérgio Rocha" 
>  
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree with Carlos. It is better to have an imperfect policy than not to 
> have any policy and watch these hijacks helplessly in the front row.
>
> I can't understand why some people resist having a policy that create a 
> response to those who break the chain of trust on which the internet is 
> based, we can't keep looking at abusers and think it's okay, one of this days 
> will be your network, your client.
>
> There are many hijacks that are claimed by the true owners of space and we 
> cannot let these abusers, usually are always the same, remain members, we 
> need to have policies to fight.
>
> At RIPE meetings I always hear a lot of people talking about the inability to 
> have any response to these events and when we hear the impact of these 
> actions we realize than something has to be done, it may be not consensual a 
> first version, but all supporters are certain that improvements will be made 
> in the future.
>
> Finally, if we do not want nations and governmental laws to regulate the 
> internet, it has to be via entities like RIPE to bring regulation, otherwise 
> we will lose control of the internet and it will start to be controlled by 
> governments. (they are waiting for us to fail)
>
> Regards,
> Sérgio
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: anti-abuse-wg [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-boun...@ripe.net] On Behalf Of 
> Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg
> Sent: 10 de setembro de 2019 08:26
> To: Jacob Slater 
> Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a 
> RIPE Policy Violation)
>
>
> Hello,
>
> As the RIPE NCC's IA shows (imho), the proposed process is not perfect.
>
> The main goal of having a process to start with was to allow some action 
> regarding evident cases, and i hope people will agree that significant effort 
> was made to accomodate comments during v1's discussion.
>
> We tried to add more "safety knobs", because we felt that a wrong decision 
> (by experts) would be a really, really bad thing, and we wanted to avoid that 
> -- even knowing that sometimes even courts do get it wrong _and_ that ONE 
> 'guilty of hijacking' case wouldn't result immediately in a LIR terminating 
> process.
>
> In the case there were no doubts that someone/some company was doing this 
> (i.e. a 'guilty' conclusion), the expected outcome would be for that member 
> to stop that behaviour from that point forward.
>
> Regards,
> Carlos
>
>
>
>
>> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater wrote:
>>
>> All,
>> Sure, but stat.ripe.net, bgp.he.net, rpki, and many other sources are free
>> for everyone to access. :-)
>>
>>
>> Having a copy of the table and see historical data doesn't
>> automatically give one the ability to determine if a given announcement was 
>> a hijack.
>> I might strongly suspect that it was - sure. My personal suspicions
>> should not be enough in this instance.
>>
>> Honestly, i handed it back in late April. The IA and publishing took some
>> time... :-)
>> What i think supports what i wrote above is in Section 7.0, clause 1:
>> "The RIPE NCC will verify that a report contains sufficient information
>> before assigning it to a group of experts. If this is not the case, the
>> report will be dismissed."
>>
>> Maybe it could be a bit clearer, or we could textually add "one event or a
>> handful of events is not enough".
>>
>> Stating that a single report isn't enough doesn't solve the issue. A
>> thousand reports might not give enough quality information to justify
>> an investigation; a single report from an authoritative source might. It is 
>> for this reason that - in order to save resources - I'm concerned with the 
>> amount of people who could potentially submit a report.
>>
>> Hence Section 7.0, clause 1 :-)
>>
>> Section 7 of the current draft gives the accused the opportunity to
>> defend themselves as the 

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-10 Thread Nuno Vieira via anti-abuse-wg
Unfortunately yes. However it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t discuss this, work 
on solutions and don’t let this die. 

Some interim solutions might be good to be deployed, like warp. At least they 
would serve as statistic or wall of shame. 

This might only see the sunlight when some government, regulator or some 
“critical” infrastructure around here gets hijacked, and the collaborative 
isps/upstreams properly bashed and prosecuted. 

Nuno Vieira

No dia 10/09/2019, às 12:26, Suresh Ramasubramanian  
escreveu:

> You are right. I have very little hope of anything concrete coming out of 
> this process, however.
> 
> On 10/09/19, 4:04 PM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sérgio Rocha" 
>  
> wrote:
> 
>Hi,
> 
>I agree with Carlos. It is better to have an imperfect policy than not to 
> have any policy and watch these hijacks helplessly in the front row.
> 
>I can't understand why some people resist having a policy that create a 
> response to those who break the chain of trust on which the internet is 
> based, we can't keep looking at abusers and think it's okay, one of this days 
> will be your network, your client.
> 
>There are many hijacks that are claimed by the true owners of space and we 
> cannot let these abusers,  usually are always the same, remain members, we 
> need to have policies to fight.
> 
>At RIPE meetings I always hear a lot of people talking about the inability 
> to have any response to these events and when we hear the impact of these 
> actions we realize than something has to be done, it may be not consensual a 
> first version, but all supporters are certain that improvements will be made 
> in the future.
> 
>Finally, if we do not want nations and governmental laws to regulate the 
> internet, it has to be via entities like RIPE to bring regulation, otherwise 
> we will lose control of the internet and it will start to be controlled by 
> governments. (they are waiting for us to fail)
> 
>Regards,
>Sérgio 
> 
> 
>-Original Message-
>From: anti-abuse-wg [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-boun...@ripe.net] On Behalf Of 
> Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg
>Sent: 10 de setembro de 2019 08:26
>To: Jacob Slater 
>Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
>Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a 
> RIPE Policy Violation)
> 
> 
>Hello,
> 
>As the RIPE NCC's IA shows (imho), the proposed process is not perfect.
> 
>The main goal of having a process to start with was to allow some action 
> regarding evident cases, and i hope people will agree that significant effort 
> was made to accomodate comments during v1's discussion.
> 
>We tried to add more "safety knobs", because we felt that a wrong decision 
> (by experts) would be a really, really bad thing, and we wanted to avoid that 
> -- even knowing that sometimes even courts do get it wrong _and_ that ONE 
> 'guilty of hijacking' case wouldn't result immediately in a LIR terminating 
> process.
> 
>In the case there were no doubts that someone/some company was doing this 
> (i.e. a 'guilty' conclusion), the expected outcome would be for that member 
> to stop that behaviour from that point forward.
> 
>Regards,
>Carlos
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>>  Sure, but stat.ripe.net, bgp.he.net, rpki, and many other sources are 
>> free
>>  for everyone to access. :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Having a copy of the table and see historical data doesn't 
>> automatically give one the ability to determine if a given announcement was 
>> a hijack.
>> I might strongly suspect that it was - sure. My personal suspicions 
>> should not be enough in this instance.
>> 
>>  Honestly, i handed it back in late April. The IA and publishing took 
>> some
>>  time... :-)
>>  What i think supports what i wrote above is in Section 7.0, clause 1:
>>  "The RIPE NCC will verify that a report contains sufficient information
>>  before assigning it to a group of experts. If this is not the case, the
>>  report will be dismissed."
>> 
>>  Maybe it could be a bit clearer, or we could textually add "one event 
>> or a
>>  handful of events is not enough".
>> 
>> Stating that a single report isn't enough doesn't solve the issue. A 
>> thousand reports might not give enough quality information to justify 
>> an investigation; a single report from an authoritative source might. It is 
>> for this reason that - in order to save resources - I'm concerned with the 
>> amount of people who could potentially submit a report.
>> 
>>  Hence Section 7.0, clause 1 :-)
>> 
>> Section 7 of the current draft gives the accused the opportunity to 
>> defend themselves as the second step, right after the NCC "verifies" the 
>> request.
>> The accused entity is still being "asked" (under pressure) to provide 
>> information on the basis of a report that may or may not have come from 
>> someone who actually knows about 

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
You are right. I have very little hope of anything concrete coming out of this 
process, however.

On 10/09/19, 4:04 PM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sérgio Rocha" 
 
wrote:

Hi,

I agree with Carlos. It is better to have an imperfect policy than not to 
have any policy and watch these hijacks helplessly in the front row.

I can't understand why some people resist having a policy that create a 
response to those who break the chain of trust on which the internet is based, 
we can't keep looking at abusers and think it's okay, one of this days will be 
your network, your client.

There are many hijacks that are claimed by the true owners of space and we 
cannot let these abusers,  usually are always the same, remain members, we need 
to have policies to fight.

At RIPE meetings I always hear a lot of people talking about the inability 
to have any response to these events and when we hear the impact of these 
actions we realize than something has to be done, it may be not consensual a 
first version, but all supporters are certain that improvements will be made in 
the future.

Finally, if we do not want nations and governmental laws to regulate the 
internet, it has to be via entities like RIPE to bring regulation, otherwise we 
will lose control of the internet and it will start to be controlled by 
governments. (they are waiting for us to fail)

Regards,
Sérgio 


-Original Message-
From: anti-abuse-wg [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-boun...@ripe.net] On Behalf Of 
Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg
Sent: 10 de setembro de 2019 08:26
To: Jacob Slater 
Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a 
RIPE Policy Violation)


Hello,

As the RIPE NCC's IA shows (imho), the proposed process is not perfect.

The main goal of having a process to start with was to allow some action 
regarding evident cases, and i hope people will agree that significant effort 
was made to accomodate comments during v1's discussion.

We tried to add more "safety knobs", because we felt that a wrong decision 
(by experts) would be a really, really bad thing, and we wanted to avoid that 
-- even knowing that sometimes even courts do get it wrong _and_ that ONE 
'guilty of hijacking' case wouldn't result immediately in a LIR terminating 
process.

In the case there were no doubts that someone/some company was doing this 
(i.e. a 'guilty' conclusion), the expected outcome would be for that member to 
stop that behaviour from that point forward.

Regards,
Carlos




On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater wrote:

> All,
>   Sure, but stat.ripe.net, bgp.he.net, rpki, and many other sources 
are free
>   for everyone to access. :-)
> 
> 
> Having a copy of the table and see historical data doesn't 
> automatically give one the ability to determine if a given announcement 
was a hijack.
> I might strongly suspect that it was - sure. My personal suspicions 
> should not be enough in this instance.
>
>   Honestly, i handed it back in late April. The IA and publishing 
took some
>   time... :-)
>   What i think supports what i wrote above is in Section 7.0, clause 
1:
>   "The RIPE NCC will verify that a report contains sufficient 
information
>   before assigning it to a group of experts. If this is not the case, 
the
>   report will be dismissed."
>
>   Maybe it could be a bit clearer, or we could textually add "one 
event or a
>   handful of events is not enough".
> 
> Stating that a single report isn't enough doesn't solve the issue. A 
> thousand reports might not give enough quality information to justify 
> an investigation; a single report from an authoritative source might. It 
is for this reason that - in order to save resources - I'm concerned with the 
amount of people who could potentially submit a report.
>
>   Hence Section 7.0, clause 1 :-)
> 
> Section 7 of the current draft gives the accused the opportunity to 
> defend themselves as the second step, right after the NCC "verifies" the 
request.
> The accused entity is still being "asked" (under pressure) to provide 
> information on the basis of a report that may or may not have come from 
someone who actually knows about the situation.
>
>   Sure. And i have already read the IA. All of it.
> 
> OK. I've done the same. I still feel that the IA outlines a lot of 
> issues and problems. At this time, I don't think that the potential 
benefits of the proposal outweigh the costs.
> 
> Jacob Slater
>  
> 
>  
> 
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 5:56 PM Carlos Friaças  wrote:
> 
>
>   Hi,
> 
>
>   On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater 

[anti-abuse-wg] Fw: [aa-wg-chair] RIPE 78 Anti-Abuse WG Minutes

2019-09-10 Thread Brian Nisbet
Colleagues,

Here are the draft minutes from RIPE 78. Please let us know if you have any 
issues or required changes.

Thanks,

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

Brian Nisbet
Service Operations Manager
HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network
1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland
+35316609040 brian.nis...@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie
Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270

RIPE 78-Anti-Abuse-WG Minutes.docx
Description: RIPE 78-Anti-Abuse-WG Minutes.docx


Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-10 Thread Sérgio Rocha
Hi,

I agree with Carlos. It is better to have an imperfect policy than not to have 
any policy and watch these hijacks helplessly in the front row.

I can't understand why some people resist having a policy that create a 
response to those who break the chain of trust on which the internet is based, 
we can't keep looking at abusers and think it's okay, one of this days will be 
your network, your client.

There are many hijacks that are claimed by the true owners of space and we 
cannot let these abusers,  usually are always the same, remain members, we need 
to have policies to fight.

At RIPE meetings I always hear a lot of people talking about the inability to 
have any response to these events and when we hear the impact of these actions 
we realize than something has to be done, it may be not consensual a first 
version, but all supporters are certain that improvements will be made in the 
future.

Finally, if we do not want nations and governmental laws to regulate the 
internet, it has to be via entities like RIPE to bring regulation, otherwise we 
will lose control of the internet and it will start to be controlled by 
governments. (they are waiting for us to fail)

Regards,
Sérgio 


-Original Message-
From: anti-abuse-wg [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-boun...@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Carlos 
Friaças via anti-abuse-wg
Sent: 10 de setembro de 2019 08:26
To: Jacob Slater 
Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE 
Policy Violation)


Hello,

As the RIPE NCC's IA shows (imho), the proposed process is not perfect.

The main goal of having a process to start with was to allow some action 
regarding evident cases, and i hope people will agree that significant effort 
was made to accomodate comments during v1's discussion.

We tried to add more "safety knobs", because we felt that a wrong decision (by 
experts) would be a really, really bad thing, and we wanted to avoid that -- 
even knowing that sometimes even courts do get it wrong _and_ that ONE 'guilty 
of hijacking' case wouldn't result immediately in a LIR terminating process.

In the case there were no doubts that someone/some company was doing this (i.e. 
a 'guilty' conclusion), the expected outcome would be for that member to stop 
that behaviour from that point forward.

Regards,
Carlos




On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater wrote:

> All,
>   Sure, but stat.ripe.net, bgp.he.net, rpki, and many other sources are 
> free
>   for everyone to access. :-)
> 
> 
> Having a copy of the table and see historical data doesn't 
> automatically give one the ability to determine if a given announcement was a 
> hijack.
> I might strongly suspect that it was - sure. My personal suspicions 
> should not be enough in this instance.
>
>   Honestly, i handed it back in late April. The IA and publishing took 
> some
>   time... :-)
>   What i think supports what i wrote above is in Section 7.0, clause 1:
>   "The RIPE NCC will verify that a report contains sufficient information
>   before assigning it to a group of experts. If this is not the case, the
>   report will be dismissed."
>
>   Maybe it could be a bit clearer, or we could textually add "one event 
> or a
>   handful of events is not enough".
> 
> Stating that a single report isn't enough doesn't solve the issue. A 
> thousand reports might not give enough quality information to justify 
> an investigation; a single report from an authoritative source might. It is 
> for this reason that - in order to save resources - I'm concerned with the 
> amount of people who could potentially submit a report.
>
>   Hence Section 7.0, clause 1 :-)
> 
> Section 7 of the current draft gives the accused the opportunity to 
> defend themselves as the second step, right after the NCC "verifies" the 
> request.
> The accused entity is still being "asked" (under pressure) to provide 
> information on the basis of a report that may or may not have come from 
> someone who actually knows about the situation.
>
>   Sure. And i have already read the IA. All of it.
> 
> OK. I've done the same. I still feel that the IA outlines a lot of 
> issues and problems. At this time, I don't think that the potential benefits 
> of the proposal outweigh the costs.
> 
> Jacob Slater
>  
> 
>  
> 
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 5:56 PM Carlos Friaças  wrote:
> 
>
>   Hi,
> 
>
>   On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater wrote:
>
>   > All,
>   >   If it's *your* table, you should be able.
>   >
>   > Again, I disagree. Just because you have a copy of the routing table 
> doesn't automatically put you in a position to
>   know what is going on with each entry present in that table.
>
>   Sure, but stat.ripe.net, bgp.he.net, rpki, and many other sources are 
> free
>   for everyone to access. :-)
> 
>
>   >   But please keep in mind than one event or a handful of events 
> shouldn't
>   >   

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-10 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg


Hello,

As the RIPE NCC's IA shows (imho), the proposed process is not perfect.

The main goal of having a process to start with was to allow some action 
regarding evident cases, and i hope people will agree that significant 
effort was made to accomodate comments during v1's discussion.


We tried to add more "safety knobs", because we felt that a wrong decision 
(by experts) would be a really, really bad thing, and we wanted to avoid 
that -- even knowing that sometimes even courts do get it wrong _and_ 
that ONE 'guilty of hijacking' case wouldn't result immediately in a LIR 
terminating process.


In the case there were no doubts that someone/some company was doing this 
(i.e. a 'guilty' conclusion), the expected outcome would be for that 
member to stop that behaviour from that point forward.


Regards,
Carlos




On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater wrote:


All,
  Sure, but stat.ripe.net, bgp.he.net, rpki, and many other sources are free
  for everyone to access. :-)


Having a copy of the table and see historical data doesn't automatically give 
one the ability to determine if a given announcement
was a hijack.
I might strongly suspect that it was - sure. My personal suspicions should not 
be enough in this instance. 

  Honestly, i handed it back in late April. The IA and publishing took some
  time... :-)
  What i think supports what i wrote above is in Section 7.0, clause 1:
  "The RIPE NCC will verify that a report contains sufficient information
  before assigning it to a group of experts. If this is not the case, the
  report will be dismissed."

  Maybe it could be a bit clearer, or we could textually add "one event or a
  handful of events is not enough".

Stating that a single report isn't enough doesn't solve the issue. A thousand 
reports might not give enough quality information to
justify an investigation; a single report from an authoritative source might. 
It is for this reason that - in order to save
resources - I'm concerned with the amount of people who could potentially 
submit a report.

  Hence Section 7.0, clause 1 :-)

Section 7 of the current draft gives the accused the opportunity to defend 
themselves as the second step, right after the NCC
"verifies" the request. 
The accused entity is still being "asked" (under pressure) to provide 
information on the basis of a report that may or may not have
come from someone who actually knows about the situation.

  Sure. And i have already read the IA. All of it.

OK. I've done the same. I still feel that the IA outlines a lot of issues and 
problems. At this time, I don't think that the
potential benefits of the proposal outweigh the costs.

Jacob Slater
 

 

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 5:56 PM Carlos Friaças  wrote:


  Hi,


  On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Jacob Slater wrote:

  > All,
  >       If it's *your* table, you should be able.
  >
  > Again, I disagree. Just because you have a copy of the routing table 
doesn't automatically put you in a position to
  know what is going on with each entry present in that table.

  Sure, but stat.ripe.net, bgp.he.net, rpki, and many other sources are free
  for everyone to access. :-)


  >       But please keep in mind than one event or a handful of events 
shouldn't
  >       justify an investigation, or handing a case to "experts".
  >
  > The current policy proposal doesn't have text to support this.

  Honestly, i handed it back in late April. The IA and publishing took some
  time... :-)
  What i think supports what i wrote above is in Section 7.0, clause 1:
  "The RIPE NCC will verify that a report contains sufficient information
  before assigning it to a group of experts. If this is not the case, the
  report will be dismissed."

  Maybe it could be a bit clearer, or we could textually add "one event or a
  handful of events is not enough".



  >       If the issue is fixed and the issue originator isn't always the 
same, then
  >       no real need for an investigation. Maybe the amount of text on 
the current
  >       version fades a bit the two main concepts of "persistent" and
  >       "intentional".
  >
  > I am in agreement with you on this.
  >
  >       There should be enough "trail" to justify starting an 
investigation...
  >
  > If the person submitting a report isn't in an authoritative position to 
say whether or not an announcement was a
  hijack, there isn't a good enough "trail" to justify starting an 
investigation.

  Hence Section 7.0, clause 1 :-)



  >        The "proposal". It's just a proposal...! :-)
  >
  >        
  >
  >       I agree that there isn't a way to measure how many people around 
the
  >
  >       world would not resort to hijacking if this proposal was in place 
today 
  >
  > My apologies for misspeaking on that one.  Any references I