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[rpd] Decisions ... Abuse contact

Lamiaa Chnayti lamiaachnayti at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 09:31:46 UTC 2020


Hey Jordi,


What part of the complete solution are you offering? You are making
operational matters into policy, and making AFRINIC check each
member’s reply email is not called a complete solution but simply an
overreach.


Regards,

Lamiaa


Le mar. 6 oct. 2020 à 09:21, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net>
a écrit :


> Hi Lamiaa,

>

>

>

> Your proposal is approaching just a tiny part of the problem, that’s why

> you can do in a single sentence.

>

>

>

> Obviously, if I can do something in a single sentence, I will prefer that,

> but it is not the case.

>

>

>

> Mine is approaching the complete problem. It is based on actual facts and

> experience in other RIRs.

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Jordi

>

> @jordipalet

>

>

>

>

>

>

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> El 5/10/20 11:11, "Lamiaa Chnayti" <lamiaachnayti at gmail.com> escribió:

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>

>

> Hi Jordi,

>

>

>

> If we can make the overall policy simpler and easier to understand as well

> as to implement, why shouldn’t we do that?

>

>

>

> If we are able to express our opinion on policy in one short sentence

> precisely (and perhaps deleting the whole CPM), I will prefer to use the

> “one-sentence” version provided that we can achieve the same goal.

>

>

>

> Your policy involves operational matters which should be left to the staff

> to decide. By contrast, my proposal (which I published a few days ago)

> makes abuse-c in line with any

>

> other mandatory contact attribute in the whois database. This makes the

> overall CPM much easier to understand and to implement.

>

>

>

> The entire section 8 is not needed because so far no one has provided the

> reason why we should treat abuse-c different from tech-c and admin-c. The

> current policy text for tech-c and admin-c works well for years, isn’t it

> much easier if we simply let abuse-c follow them?

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

>

>

> Lamiaa

>

>

>

> Le ven. 2 oct. 2020 à 12:45, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net>

> a écrit :

>

> Hi Lucilla,

>

>

>

> I understand that, but then we also need to reword section 8, so in my

> opinion it is much simpler to touch only one section instead of two.

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Jordi

>

> @jordipalet

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> El 2/10/20 13:40, "lucilla fornaro" <lucillafornarosawamoto at gmail.com>

> escribió:

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>

>

> Dear Jordi,

>

>

>

> I know that the proposal is improving existing section 8, not 7.5. I said

> that, in my opinion, amending the section 7.5.1 to include the mandatory

> abuse-c as part of whois registration would be a better option.

>

>

>

> regards,

>

>

>

> Lucilla

>

>

>

> Il giorno ven 2 ott 2020 alle ore 17:26 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <

> rpd at afrinic.net> ha scritto:

>

> Hi Lucilla,

>

>

>

> The proposal is not doing what you say below. Madhvi already confirmed

> that. If the staff is understanding it and the staff will be the one

> implementing it, who come it can be wrong?

>

>

>

> The subject, what is an abuse, what not, is not in scope. You just need to

> have a valid and responsible abuse contact. If you decide to respond

> automatically even without checking the content neither subject, it is just

> fine. It is up to the operator to decide and then the victims can also

> decide.

>

>

>

> Note that the proposal is improving existing section 8, not 7.5.

>

>

>

> I think it is superfluous to explain over and over. You think the proposal

> is wrong, I think is right and I justified it (see the appeal document for

> more exhaustive details, no need to repeat everything again if it is

> already very well documented), and the staff is doing the same

> interpretation as the proposal intent.

>

>

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Jordi

>

> @jordipalet

>

>

>

>

>

>

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> El 1/10/20 14:34, "lucilla fornaro" <lucillafornarosawamoto at gmail.com>

> escribió:

>

>

>

> Dear Jordi, dear all

>

>

>

> as you mentioned several times, the staff don’t need to assess the subject

> line, neither if it is abuse or not. Then, if having a valid contact is

> what you intend to propose, why don't you acknowledge Lamiaa’s proposal

> that aims to include abuse-c as part of whois registration under the

> section 7.5.1 "Registering contact persons" that already covers the other

> mandatory contact - admin-c or tech-c?

>

>

>

> See my comments in line:

>

>

>

>

>

> Il giorno lun 21 set 2020 alle ore 19:34 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <

> rpd at afrinic.net> ha scritto:

>

> Hi Lucilla,

>

>

>

> The policy only needs to state **what the staff should evaluate** and

> thus, what members should do. The staff don’t need to evaluate the subject

> line, neither if it is actually an abuse or not.

>

>

>

> The staff just need to evaluate the abuse mailbox works.

>

> If you do not define or give an input

> of what abuse is, then how can you properly manage people's mailbox's subject line?

> How you define it works? You are asking them to respond to emails in

> a specific way, which is a violation of member’s rights.

>

>

>

> In fact, there is **no obligation** for the victim to know what should he

> put in the subject line. You can just put “abuse case”.

>

>

>

> In fact, if you operate a network, you will know that this is usually

> managed by a ticket system and the ticket system will replace the subject

> with a case number!

>

> It will, but the problem is how this complicated policy is trying to

> achieve something really simple but using a too intrusive method.

>

>

>

> Please, let us know how you do in the networks that you operate, so we can

> understand your perspective.

>

> Yes, if it were me, I would reply to every abuse and deal with even DMCA

> claims, however, we are discussing general policy regarding how internet

> space should be registered, not how to manage an individual network.

>

> You are keeping mixing up “best operation practice” with “internet number

> registration policy”, and you keep telling people what is BOP should be in

> the policy, and that is wrong. The policy is for proper registration only,

> for the accuracy of the database, using BOP into policy is not only

> intrusive but also potential dangers.

>

>

>

> And last, even if this has been responded several times: The proposal

> doesn’t tell AFRINIC that they should judge if it is an abuse or not!

>

>

> But you tell them to judge what email operator should reply to! That is even worse!

>

>

>

>

> And yes, it is in the scope of AFRINIC to have the contacts accurate and

> to manage correctly the resources. Please read the legal documents!

>

> No, it is not. Legal documents are made by lawyers, and it is for the

> Afrinic limited, not for community. It is the AFRINIC community which

> defines what to do.

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Jordi

>

> @jordipalet

>

>

>

>

>

>

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> El 21/9/20 12:00, "lucilla fornaro" <lucillafornarosawamoto at gmail.com>

> escribió:

>

>

>

> If you do not define or give an input of what abuse is, then how can you

> properly manage people's mailbox's subject line?

>

> This is a crucial element, in my opinion.

>

>

>

> More importantly, the proposal aims to supply AFRINIC of something that

> has nothing to do with its scopes. It is not up to AFRINIC to rule like a

> local court or local policy.

>

> As mentioned several times, asking AFRINIC to act as a central government

> goes against the main element that identifies the Internet:

> decentralization. The Internet is controlled by many, no one can own it,

> control it, or switch it off for everyone.

>

> AFRINIC should not evaluate how I manage MY mailbox.

>

>

>

> Lucilla

>

>

>

> Il giorno lun 21 set 2020 alle ore 14:33 Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz>

> ha scritto:

>

> Dear chairs,

>

> On 21/09/2020 03:04, ABDULKARIM OLOYEDE wrote:

> > 6. Abuse Contact Update

> >

> > The proposal makes it mandatory for AFRINIC to include in each resource

> > registration, a contact where network abuse from users of those

> > resources will be reported. The proposal whois DB attribute (abuse-c)

> > to be used to publish abuse public contact information. There’s also a

> > process to ensure that the recipient must receive abuse report and that

> > contacts are validated by AFRINIC regularly. However, there some

> > opposition to the proposal there are:

> >

> > a. Staff analysis on how it affects legacy holder not

> > conclusive (not sure why this should affect legacy holders)

> >

> > b. The proposal doesn’t state what will be the

> > consequences of one member fails to comply. Why are we creating the

> > abuse contact when there is no consequence for not providing the abuse

> > contact

> >

> > c. Abuse contact email and issues with GDPR concerning

> > the whois database

> >

> > d. No proper definition of the term Abuse

> >

> > e. To force members to reply to their abuse email is

> > not in the scope of AFRINIC.

> >

> > Chairs Decision: No rough consensus

>

> About d. "No proper definition of the term Abuse"

> yes, this was mentioned several times by members opposing.

> The proposal is about "abuse contacts". it is not about what "abuse" is.

> there is no need for a definition of "abuse".

> In my humble opinion the request for a definition of abuse is off-topic.

>

> Question: if someone makes a proposal about lame DNS servers in domain

> objects for Reverse-DNS, and I object arguing that a definition of RPKI

> is needed - what would you do with this argument?

> Q2: can arguments about a proposal be irrelevant to this proposal?

> Q3: was that the case here? were arguments, that a definition for abuse

> is required, irrelevant?

>

> I request chairs' response to Q2 and Q3.

>

>

> About e. "To force members to reply to their abuse email is not in the

> scope of AFRINIC."

> Yes, that was mentioned several times.

> And also this is something the proposal does not do and does not attempt.

> And all the comments about (d.) above apply.

>

>

> If irrelevant objections are taken as valid arguments, please note that

> I foresee that any future proposal can get rejected and the PDP will be

> stuck.

>

>

> About c. "Abuse contact email and issues with GDPR concerning the whois

> database"

> - I didn't see that on the mailing list, can you remind us, or was that

> only during the live session?

> - there are other contact information in whois. can staff confirm

> whether AfriNIC are GDPR compliant?

> - would that status change if abuse contacts would be added?

>

>

> About b. "The proposal doesn’t state what will be the consequences of

> one member fails to comply. Why are we creating the abuse contact when

> there is no consequence for not providing the abuse contact"

> - I can imagine that AfriNIC would include in their meeting

> presentations information regarding how big (in measurable terms) this

> problem is.

> - from that the WG can discuss and decide if more actions are necessary.

>

>

> About a. "Staff analysis on how it affects legacy holder not conclusive

> (not sure why this should affect legacy holders)"

> I didn't see that before, but as is tradition in my part of the world,

> let me respond to the question with a question:

> Are legacy holders subject to any for the PDWG's policies?

>

>

> Thanks,

> Frank

>

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