Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-26 Thread Brian Nisbet
Colleagues,

Thank you for the various responses and offers of assistance!

If others have further feedback on what such training should look like or, 
indeed, how useful it would be for them or various types of LIR then that would 
be incredibly useful as well.

Alireza, Tobias and I will be collating all of this, discussing it with the NCC 
L&D team and then we'll come back to the WG and individuals.

Thanks again,

Brian


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> On 19 Oct 2021, at 10:14, Erik Bais  wrote:
>
> Hi Brian & AA-WG,
>
> I think that an AA automation training would be very helpful for the members.
>
> For what I had in mind is to get attendees experience with tools like Netbox 
> (for address management among other things..), and 1 or 2 Abuse management 
> software tools.. ( like Abuse.io or Abusix (hosted & commercial) )

I’d be happy to share a bunch of Abacus[*] licences or a hosted server for this.

Cheers,
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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely

On Sat 23/Oct/2021 01:38:56 +0200 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

In message <26f1df33-b958-bed4-f748-f82324d0b...@tana.it>, Alessandro Vesely 
 wrote:


Shouldn't there be a standard for automatically forwarding messages destined
to abuse-c following a path similar to that of RFC 2317 delegations?  I'd love 
if AA training encouraged such behavior.


Although delegation of abuse report handling may sound like a good idea
in theory, in practice it is a tragically bad idea.

What happens when the customer is a spammer and abuse handling is delegated
to that customer?  Google for the term "list washing".

This isn't merely a theoretical possibility.  Digital Ocean has previously
sent me multiple response emails saying quite explicitly that they had
forwarded my spam reports to their spammer customer(s).  Those customers
will then surely cease to spam *me* but will continue to spam everyone
else on the planet.



That'd be an incentive to send spam reports, wouldn't it?



This does not create any meaningful reduction in the global spam load.  It
simply rewards those "responsible" spammers who remove from their target
lists the email addresses of the few "complainers" who nowadays take the time
to report spam.


On the other hand, there are honest mailbox providers who have not realized 
that their system has been hacked, or that their clients' credentials have been 
stolen.  And if you send a complaint to my abuse-c address, I won't get it.


For an easy guess, LIRs who offer services at regular prices —not thousand 
domain discounts— have more of the latter cases.  Still, their budget might not 
be enough for an abuse team capable of looking at each complaint.



Best
Ale





Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely

On Fri 22/Oct/2021 23:26:23 +0200 Ángel González Berdasco wrote:

Hello all


Shouldn't there be a standard for automatically forwarding messages
destined to abuse-c following a path similar to that of RFC 2317
delegations?  I'd love if AA training encouraged such behavior.


I don't think the standard should be for automatically forwarding
messages. You would need a standard for *exchanging* the information.
Fields you would need should include IP address being reported, port
(optionally), timestamp, whether this may be shared with the customer
(default yes), RSIT taxonomy of the incident being reported, etc.



Yeah, I didn't mean a capital 'S' Standard.  Rather some common practice.



And then, among the actions that can be taken, automatically forwarding
could be one of them (and probably the less expensive for the abuse-c
owner), but they could choose to process them differently.
But the first step is to match the report with the machine/customer.



If I were LIR.example, I'd set my abuse-c entries to something like:

   abuse-customer1@LIR.example
   abuse-customer2@LIR.example
   ...

That way messages can be forwarded without parsing them; but there's still a 
chance to look at them, if the budget allows it.




Many abuse teams already do that automatically, although I don't know
the amount of guessing needed by the tools on their normal flows.

The first idea that comes to mind when talking about communicating
this would be to create a solution based on X-ARF, but it's not without
its shortcomings, either, so maybe a different way is felt to be
preferable.



plain text, X-ARF, ARF, IODEF, https://xkcd.com/927/

Another way is to send an autoresponse which asks to fill the provider's web 
form, whereby the number of different formats grows unconstrained.


However, it'd be possible for a forwarding LIR.example to ask its clients to 
fill a web form, in order to summarize the complaint and its followup.  Most 
providers only have one or two ISPs, so the number of formats would stay low. 
And that could ease LIR's monitoring.




This is an interesting discussion, although I feel it's a bigger design
issue, significantly more ambitious than the proposal of providing some
abuse training which opened this thread.



Since the training is addressed to LIRs, a schema like the above could at least 
be aired.



Best
Ale





Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-22 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <26f1df33-b958-bed4-f748-f82324d0b...@tana.it>, 
Alessandro Vesely  wrote:

>Shouldn't there be a standard for automatically forwarding messages destined
>to abuse-c following a path similar to that of RFC 2317 delegations?  I'd love 
>if AA training encouraged such behavior.

Although delegation of abuse report handling may sound like a good idea
in theory, in practice it is a tragically bad idea.

What happens when the customer is a spammer and abuse handling is delegated
to that customer?  Google for the term "list washing".

This isn't merely a theoretical possibility.  Digital Ocean has previously
sent me multiple response emails saying quite explicitly that they had
forwarded my spam reports to their spammer customer(s).  Those customers
will then surely cease to spam *me* but will continue to spam everyone
else on the planet.  This does not create any meaningful reduction in the
global spam load.  It simply rewards those "responsible" spammers who remove
from their target lists the email addreses of the few "complainers" who
nowadays take the time to report spam.


Regards,
rfg



Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-22 Thread Ángel González Berdasco
Hello all

> Shouldn't there be a standard for automatically forwarding messages
> destined to abuse-c following a path similar to that of RFC 2317
> delegations?  I'd love if AA training encouraged such behavior.

I don't think the standard should be for automatically forwarding
messages. You would need a standard for *exchanging* the information.
Fields you would need should include IP address being reported, port
(optionally), timestamp, whether this may be shared with the customer
(default yes), RSIT taxonomy of the incident being reported, etc.

And then, among the actions that can be taken, automatically forwarding
could be one of them (and probablye the less expensive for the abuse-c
owner), but they could choose to process them differently.
But the first step is to match the report with the machine/customer.
Many abuse teams already do that automatically, although I don't know
the amount of guessing needed by the tools on their normal flows.

The first idea that comes to mind when talking about communicating
this would be to create a solution based on X-ARF, but it's not without
its shortcomings, either, so maybe a different way is felt to be
preferable.

This is an interesting discussion, although I feel it's a bigger design
issue, significantly more ambitious than the proposal of providing some
abuse training which opened this thread.


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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely

Hi all,

On Mon 18/Oct/2021 18:40:06 +0200 Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg 
wrote:



3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would be of 
interest?


A lot of hosting providers aren’t LIRs, but are getting IP space from LIRs. 
Maybe providing materials that LIRs could share with their clients would help? 
There  seems to be a lot of ignorance out there.



There are also people who are not hosting providers, but host their own 
server(s) using a handful of IP addresses.  I know mailbox self-providers are 
an endangered species, but they may still happen to have an IP delegation w/o 
abuse-c.  And complainants may prefer to send reports to the top level 
delegate.  However, top level delegate may happen to have non-responding abuse 
teams.  At best, ISPs forward complaints to their clients.

Shouldn't there be a standard for automatically forwarding messages destined to 
abuse-c following a path similar to that of RFC 2317 delegations?  I'd love if 
AA training encouraged such behavior.


Best
Ale
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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-19 Thread Steve Atkins



> On 19 Oct 2021, at 10:14, Erik Bais  wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian & AA-WG,  
> 
> I think that an AA automation training would be very helpful for the members.
> 
> For what I had in mind is to get attendees experience with tools like Netbox 
> (for address management among other things..), and 1 or 2 Abuse management 
> software tools.. ( like Abuse.io or Abusix (hosted & commercial) ) 

I’d be happy to share a bunch of Abacus[*] licences or a hosted server for this.

Cheers,
  Steve

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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-19 Thread Erik Bais
Hi Brian & AA-WG,  

I think that an AA automation training would be very helpful for the members.

For what I had in mind is to get attendees experience with tools like Netbox 
(for address management among other things..), and 1 or 2 Abuse management 
software tools.. ( like Abuse.io or Abusix (hosted & commercial) ) 

I create some time ago a write up of what the training could entail ( not set 
in stone obviously .. ) feel free to take your own path ..   
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8yv7VmflmhJyu3jgz3R63YWNdhKKKaP8LEs25ZexoE/edit?usp=sharing
 

Once people see how easy it is to move away from excel sheets for IP address 
management .. and see the benefits of off-the-shelves products .. and how this 
could help them in their daily work, I'm sure that we will be in a better place 
in the future. 

So a big +1 from me on any training for the NCC members on training on this 
subject. 

Regards,
Erik Bais 



On 15/10/2021, 11:15, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Brian Nisbet" 
 wrote:

Colleagues,

As you may remember the WG Co-Chairs have been talking to the NCC about 
some possible Anti-Abuse training in March of this year. 

This proposal got very little reaction from the community, so we are going 
to try again to see if there is interest, or if people who are already on this 
mailing list believe that there would be interest from other LIRs that they 
know.

I have re-attached the proposal that Alireza sent to the mailing list in 
March.

Between now and RIPE 83 (when this matter will be on the WG session agenda) 
I would ask the following questions:

1) Would training, as described, be of interest to you?

2) Would training, as described, be of interest to other LIRs you know 
of/work with?

3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would be 
of interest?

4) Would you be willing to help write training materials for this course?

After the list discussion and discussion at RIPE 83 the Co-Chairs will work 
with the NCC Learning & Development Team to decide if there is enough interest 
to develop the course and, if there is, how to proceed from there.

We really do believe this is something that would be of interest to a large 
number of small LIRs in the region, but that's not something we can really 
determine without the help of the WG

Thank you,

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

Brian Nisbet (he/him)
Service Operations Manager
HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network
1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland
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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-18 Thread Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg

Hi All

Michele, I think this is a great idea. It would probably make sense to 
liaise with https://www.m3aawg.org/ and FIRST (tha latter would be me 
;-) and I can broker an intro to the M3AAWG peoples.
Not also, that FIRST has a "DNS Abuse SIG", that focuses on domain 
related abuse, but in a wide sense. I'm sure that work could be extended 
to cover IP abuse.


And before we start our usual skirmishes: The fist step the group did 
was to come up with a taxonomy, so that we all speak of the same. A 
second step will then be suggestions on how to mitigate this.
If we feel something like this would be of value for "IP abuse" I'm 
happy to help set up a FIRST SIG, so we cover the world, and not just 
RIPE. But irrespective of this, I think some training courses would be 
awesome.


I'd be super happy to help.

Best
Serge

On 18/10/2021 18:40, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg wrote:

Brian

I missed earlier emails about this.

I think it would be beneficial for a lot of LIRs to get some basic 
training.


Anything that improves the landscape should be encouraged and welcomed!

 1. Would training, as described, be of interest to you?

Potentially for new staff if the materials were available ie. As a resource

 2. Would training, as described, be of interest to other LIRs you know
of/work with?

I don’t know of any specifically, but that’s down to my role.

3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would 
be of interest?


A lot of hosting providers aren’t LIRs, but are getting IP space from 
LIRs. Maybe providing materials that LIRs could share with their clients 
would help? There  seems to be a lot of ignorance out there.


4) Would you be willing to help write training materials for this course?
I don’t have time to produce materials but I’d be happy to review same.

Regards


Michele

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Colleagues,

As you may remember the WG Co-Chairs have been talking to the NCC about 
some possible Anti-Abuse training in March of this year.


This proposal got very little reaction from the community, so we are 
going to try again to see if there is interest, or if people who are 
already on this mailing list believe that there would be interest from 
other LIRs that they know.


I have re-attached the proposal that Alireza sent to the mailing list in 
March.


Between now and RIPE 83 (when this matter will be on the WG session 
agenda) I would ask the following questions:


1) Would training, as described, be of interest to you?

2) Would training, as described, be of interest to other LIRs you know 
of/work with?


3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would 
be of interest?


4) Would you be willing to help write training materials for this course?

After the list discussion and discussion at RIPE 83 the Co-Chairs will 
work with the NCC Learning & Development Team to decide if there is 
enough interest to develop the course and, if there is, how to proceed 
from there.


We really do believe this is something that would be of interest to a 
large number of small LIRs in the region, but that's not something we 
can really determine without the help of the WG


Thank you,

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

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Service Operations Manager
HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network
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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-18 Thread Wido Potters

Hi,

On 15-10-2021 11:14, Brian Nisbet wrote:

1) Would training, as described, be of interest to you?


Yes, we (AS12859) would be interested. I hope it will help new 
colleagues in getting a good understanding of the issues.



2) Would training, as described, be of interest to other LIRs you know of/work 
with?


I expect so, yes. Before covid I spoke regularly with LIR's who 
expressed some tips and tricks on the subject would be helpful.



3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would be of 
interest?
I think most people would benefit from practical tips and sharing of 
experiences from other LIR's/providers.



4) Would you be willing to help write training materials for this course?


Yes, I am co-author of an anti-abuse code of conduct and roadmap for 
Dutch providers and registrars. These are both creative commons 
licensed. Last year I helped developing an anti-abuse course by the .NL 
registry for .NL registrars, I have asked whether this content can be 
shared.



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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-18 Thread Gert Doering
Hi,

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 04:40:06PM +, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via 
anti-abuse-wg wrote:
>   1.  Would training, as described, be of interest to you?
> Potentially for new staff if the materials were available ie. As a resource

Indeed, that would be helpful.

(And I'm not volunteering to write something - sorry, already too many
competing voluntary projects)

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Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-18 Thread Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg
Brian

I missed earlier emails about this.

I think it would be beneficial for a lot of LIRs to get some basic training.

Anything that improves the landscape should be encouraged and welcomed!


  1.  Would training, as described, be of interest to you?

Potentially for new staff if the materials were available ie. As a resource



  1.  Would training, as described, be of interest to other LIRs you know 
of/work with?

I don’t know of any specifically, but that’s down to my role.

3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would be of 
interest?

A lot of hosting providers aren’t LIRs, but are getting IP space from LIRs. 
Maybe providing materials that LIRs could share with their clients would help? 
There  seems to be a lot of ignorance out there.

4) Would you be willing to help write training materials for this course?
I don’t have time to produce materials but I’d be happy to review same.



Regards

Michele




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From: anti-abuse-wg  on behalf of Brian Nisbet 

Date: Friday, 15 October 2021 at 10:15
To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net 
Subject: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG
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Colleagues,

As you may remember the WG Co-Chairs have been talking to the NCC about some 
possible Anti-Abuse training in March of this year.

This proposal got very little reaction from the community, so we are going to 
try again to see if there is interest, or if people who are already on this 
mailing list believe that there would be interest from other LIRs that they 
know.

I have re-attached the proposal that Alireza sent to the mailing list in March.

Between now and RIPE 83 (when this matter will be on the WG session agenda) I 
would ask the following questions:

1) Would training, as described, be of interest to you?

2) Would training, as described, be of interest to other LIRs you know of/work 
with?

3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would be of 
interest?

4) Would you be willing to help write training materials for this course?

After the list discussion and discussion at RIPE 83 the Co-Chairs will work 
with the NCC Learning & Development Team to decide if there is enough interest 
to develop the course and, if there is, how to proceed from there.

We really do believe this is something that would be of interest to a large 
number of small LIRs in the region, but that's not something we can really 
determine without the help of the WG

Thank you,

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

Brian Nisbet (he/him)
Service Operations Manager
HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network
1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland
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[anti-abuse-wg] Anti-Abuse Training: Questions for the WG

2021-10-15 Thread Brian Nisbet
Colleagues,

As you may remember the WG Co-Chairs have been talking to the NCC about some 
possible Anti-Abuse training in March of this year. 

This proposal got very little reaction from the community, so we are going to 
try again to see if there is interest, or if people who are already on this 
mailing list believe that there would be interest from other LIRs that they 
know.

I have re-attached the proposal that Alireza sent to the mailing list in March.

Between now and RIPE 83 (when this matter will be on the WG session agenda) I 
would ask the following questions:

1) Would training, as described, be of interest to you?

2) Would training, as described, be of interest to other LIRs you know of/work 
with?

3) If not, would there be other areas of Anti-Abuse training that would be of 
interest?

4) Would you be willing to help write training materials for this course?

After the list discussion and discussion at RIPE 83 the Co-Chairs will work 
with the NCC Learning & Development Team to decide if there is enough interest 
to develop the course and, if there is, how to proceed from there.

We really do believe this is something that would be of interest to a large 
number of small LIRs in the region, but that's not something we can really 
determine without the help of the WG

Thank you,

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

Brian Nisbet (he/him)
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
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The Internet is a complex ecosystem where many people and organisations 
converge, with differing outlooks and motivations. While the vast majority of 
these are for the general good, sadly that is not always the case. To deal with 
this negative part, the RIPE Community created the Anti-Abuse Working Group 
that aims to tackle online abuse from both the technical and non-technical 
angles.

Some of the ideas that can be useful to understand the context of anti-abuse 
and how important collaboration and mutual understanding is, are:

- Your outbound is somebody’s inbound. And vice versa.
- My network, my rules. You want your rules accepted, accept the rules of 
others as well.
- You define what abuse is. So do others. Be respectful and try to solve the 
issues together.
- The community expects you to handle Abuse in your network and keep the 
resources you have been granted clean

It is also not possible to have a one-fit-all definition of abuse. To say the 
least it depends on the point of view, so you define when enough is enough. 
Twitter has a different definition than a small LIR. While you have your 
definition and Twitter has its own, don't judge another person for complaining 
about what they define as abuse of their network. Be reasonable!

In addition to this, there are different types of resources to be considered. 
For example, due to enormous IPv6 address space and v6 spammers constantly 
changing their prefixes, it is not clear yet what are the best practices 
fighting IPv6 abuses.

Despite the difficulties on defining anti-abuse, the WG considers that a 
training activity about anti-abuse could be of great help.


Anti-abuse training

- Title: Anti-abuse for LIRs

- Target audience: Small new LIRs (mostly), but also all the other ones (eg. 
old-big ones can share more with the new ones)

- Topic: How to report and handle abuse of your LIR resources (IPs and ASNs)

- Stakeholders: RIPE NCC’s LIRs (with special focus on very small LIRs that 
doesn’t know where and how to report abuse), targets of abuse, "facilitators" 
of abuse, the ones that abuse, LIRs with resources in other RIRs

- Format: webinar (1-2 hrs) with trainers and interaction (questions and polls)
 *In the future we can develop other reference materials for easy 
sharing: BCOPs, RIPElabs articles, etc.
- Pedagogical approach: adult learning for professionals, where they will learn 
actionable things that are useful for their daily job.

- Scope: We consider abuse and anti-abuse from the point of view of RIPE 
NCC’s LIRs and related with Internet numeric resources (IPs and ASNs)

- Main Goals (from the participant point of view):
1) Explain the "abuse" context, and identify your place on it
2) Understand what is expected from you from the Internet community
Examples of questions to ask yourself: What led your network to abuse 
others?, Am I attacking others currently?, How do I know?, Where should I check 
my reputation?
3) Define a plan about what you, as an LIR, can do for others about 
fighting abuse
 Examples: maintain your anti-abuse contact info, report on abuse, 
share info on abuse cases, collaborate with other stakeholders (LEAs, CERTs, 
LIRs, RIPE Community), automate abuse handling/tools?
4) Understand what you can expect from other stakeholders related with 
abuse fightin