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--></style></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Lamiaa,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I don’t agree. Internet doesn't depend on any jurisdiction; abuse is about what I (the victim operator) consider abuse. The RFC is clear about that, in short “Inappropriate public behaviour” (is a mailbox so to be able to contact in case there is a possible inappropriate behaviour in the public Internet). If you want a clearer definition, abuse is *<b>anything</b>* that I don’t want to accept in my network because is in any way damaging it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If I don’t want to accept a DoS, or spam, or phising, DMCA, or whatever, this is abuse *<b>for me</b>*. I’ve the right to tell you because that abuse is coming from your network. If you believe that is not abuse (and here is your jurisdiction in some cases, in other just doesn’t exist, but it may be also your “business” decision – like operators that don’t care if their customers do spam or intrusion attempts), you’ve the right to tell me “sorry, this is not abuse for us”, and then I’ve the right to decide if I should filter your network based on your response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Not having an abuse contact, means that I’m not able to contact you, so we can’t talk, we can’t investigate or agree if it is an abuse or not, so you (the offender operator) don’t have the chance to decide about it! Is bad for you, is bad for me. In those cases, my best choice is to filter you. This create problems for your customers and my customers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>We can’t depend on jurisdictions, because then the policy will need to consider inter-relations among every possible “pairs” of country worlds, and we will need to update the policy based on any jurisdiction change. The policy is not about that, is about having a valid responsible contact, not about deciding what is an abuse, which is among the two parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Tell me what is different from AFRINIC than the rest of the world, because none of the RIRs have defined abuse in their policies. I even don’t recall that having appeared in the discussions!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>If you want, I’m happy to change the title of the proposal to “supposed abuse contact”, that may be clearing your point?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Again, this is not about defining what is abuse, this is among the parties. It is about making sure that there is a valid responsible contact in case of anyone needs to report what he considers an abuse. AFRINIC will not punish anyone that believes that his customer is not doing an abuse because in his country is not an abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Jordi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>@jordipalet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>El 18/9/20 9:59, "Lamiaa Chnayti" <<a href="mailto:lamiaachnayti@gmail.com">lamiaachnayti@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>Hello Jordi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>RFC2142 only defines a tiny portion of the network abuse. In real world operation, abuse consists of a much boarder range : DMCA(copy rights) claims, unsolicited emails , phishing websites , trade mark disputes etc. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>All those are legal issues that vary vastly across different juridictions in which no one but each of the juridiction’s judges can decide if it is an abuse or an illegal activity. Claiming that RFC2142 defines not even 1% of real world abuse is laughable.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>Lamiaa<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>Le jeu. 17 sept. 2020 à 15:51, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none black 1.0pt;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Hi Lamiaa,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>I’ve said this already. This policy doesn’t enforce abuse, it enforces that the abuse contact is there, and works.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Today AFRINIC is paying for the cost of the abuse handling because only a tiny fraction of the members has the abuse contacts in place.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>If the contacts in the RIR database aren’t actual and accurate, this is a clear violation of the RSA. So what is unacceptable is not having the contacts, not on the other way around.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Abuse is not defined by the RIRs, everybody knows it and this is the reason why NONE of the RIRs have re-defined it, because it is already stated in RFC2142. Can you justify why AFRINIC is different and need a definition?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>How you define it in the networks that you operate?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Jordi</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>@jordipalet</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'>El 17/9/20 10:49, "Lamiaa Chnayti" <<a href="mailto:lamiaachnayti@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>lamiaachnayti@gmail.com</span></a>> escribió:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>I will have to agree with Lucilla on what she said and would like to add to it that :</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Firstly, Abuse enforcement is out of scope for RIRs.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Secondly, RIRs have no ability to define what is “abuse”, one abuse or even criminal activity could be entirely a legal operation in a different jurisdiction.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Finally, making a member forcefully reply to abuse contact Emails are a waste of resources and totally pointless, it is entirely up to the member to define what they think is acceptable in their network operation and how they react to it. AFRINIC has no mandate to force any member to reply to an “abuse”, since AFRINIC doesn’t even have the ability to identify what is considered an abuse.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Therefore the entire policy is out of scope for the RIR operation.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Lamiaa</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:12.7pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><pre style='margin-left:90.3pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'>Le jeu. 17 sept. 2020 à 07:42, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>rpd@afrinic.net</span></a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Hi Lucilla,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Today we already have mnt-IRT, and everybody who operate networks understand what it is an abuse. If you operate networks you know that *<b>anything</b>* which is a non-authorized use of a network is an abuse.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>If you send spam, attack networks, try to intrude networks, etc., all those are abuse.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>What the policy ask is to make sure that in AFRINIC everybody has an abuse contact (today we have mnt-IRT, but is not mandatory, and as a results many African networks are filtered because lack of that – and consequently they do not respond to abuse cases -, which exist in all the other regions of the world).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Not having an abuse means more chances of legal actions, more cost, for both the victims and the ISPs. Having that means that you have more chances to resolve it in goodfaith.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>One of the *<b>most important</b>* Afrinic missions is to have accuracy on the database, which includes accuracy on the contacts. We are not fulfilling that in this situation.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Remember that *<b>all</b>* the other RIRs have already this kind of policy. This one is like the one that has been implemented in APNIC, and the accuracy of the contacts is now 87.5% as reported this month in the last APNIC meeting. In that report *<b>none</b>* of the members indicated any of the issues that you indicated (didn't happened as well in the other regions).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>You know who is interested in not having abuse contacts? Those that use their networks for doing abuse (hijacking, spam, DoS, intrusions, etc.).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Can you explain if the network that you operate has an abuse contact an how if one of your customes is trying to penetrate my network or do a DoS, I will be able to contact you and if you will do anything or just ignore it?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Jordi</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>@jordipalet</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>El 17/9/20 2:21, "lucilla fornaro" <<a href="mailto:lucillafornarosawamoto@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>lucillafornarosawamoto@gmail.com</span></a>> escribió:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>I have some concerns about the “Abuse Contact Policy”.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>First of all, it does not offer a specific and regulated description of the term “abuse” and this opens the door to potentially bigger problems: a surplus of reports, discrimination/legal issues, and a waste of resources. Around the world, we can perceive what abuse is in very different ways.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Afrinic is not entitled to force members to report abuses and most importantly, this proposal does not represent Afrinic’s purpose.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>I, therefore, oppose this policy.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none black 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Lucilla <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>_______________________________________________ RPD mailing list <a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>RPD@afrinic.net</span></a> <a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><br>**********************************************<br>IPv4 is over<br>Are you ready for the new Internet ?<br><a href="http://www.theipv6company.com/" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>http://www.theipv6company.com</span></a><br>The IPv6 Company<br><br>This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. 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If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, even if partially, including attached files, is strictly prohibited, will be considered a criminal offense, so you must reply to the original sender to inform about this communication and delete it.<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>RPD mailing list<br><br><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>RPD@afrinic.net</span></a><br><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>Le jeu. 17 sept. 2020 à 15:49, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi Lamiaa,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>I’ve said this already. This policy doesn’t enforce abuse, it enforces that the abuse contact is there, and works.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Today AFRINIC is paying for the cost of the abuse handling because only a tiny fraction of the members has the abuse contacts in place.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>If the contacts in the RIR database aren’t actual and accurate, this is a clear violation of the RSA. So what is unacceptable is not having the contacts, not on the other way around.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Abuse is not defined by the RIRs, everybody knows it and this is the reason why NONE of the RIRs have re-defined it, because it is already stated in RFC2142. Can you justify why AFRINIC is different and need a definition?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>How you define it in the networks that you operate?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Jordi</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>@jordipalet</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'>El 17/9/20 10:49, "Lamiaa Chnayti" <<a href="mailto:lamiaachnayti@gmail.com" target="_blank">lamiaachnayti@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>I will have to agree with Lucilla on what she said and would like to add to it that :</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>Firstly, Abuse enforcement is out of scope for RIRs.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>Secondly, RIRs have no ability to define what is “abuse”, one abuse or even criminal activity could be entirely a legal operation in a different jurisdiction.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>Finally, making a member forcefully reply to abuse contact Emails are a waste of resources and totally pointless, it is entirely up to the member to define what they think is acceptable in their network operation and how they react to it. AFRINIC has no mandate to force any member to reply to an “abuse”, since AFRINIC doesn’t even have the ability to identify what is considered an abuse.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>Therefore the entire policy is out of scope for the RIR operation.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515'>Lamiaa</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:90.3pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><pre style='margin-left:90.3pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#151515'> </span><o:p></o:p></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'>Le jeu. 17 sept. 2020 à 07:42, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi Lucilla,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Today we already have mnt-IRT, and everybody who operate networks understand what it is an abuse. If you operate networks you know that *<b>anything</b>* which is a non-authorized use of a network is an abuse.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you send spam, attack networks, try to intrude networks, etc., all those are abuse.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>What the policy ask is to make sure that in AFRINIC everybody has an abuse contact (today we have mnt-IRT, but is not mandatory, and as a results many African networks are filtered because lack of that – and consequently they do not respond to abuse cases -, which exist in all the other regions of the world).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Not having an abuse means more chances of legal actions, more cost, for both the victims and the ISPs. Having that means that you have more chances to resolve it in goodfaith.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>One of the *<b>most important</b>* Afrinic missions is to have accuracy on the database, which includes accuracy on the contacts. We are not fulfilling that in this situation.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Remember that *<b>all</b>* the other RIRs have already this kind of policy. This one is like the one that has been implemented in APNIC, and the accuracy of the contacts is now 87.5% as reported this month in the last APNIC meeting. In that report *<b>none</b>* of the members indicated any of the issues that you indicated (didn't happened as well in the other regions).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>You know who is interested in not having abuse contacts? Those that use their networks for doing abuse (hijacking, spam, DoS, intrusions, etc.).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Can you explain if the network that you operate has an abuse contact an how if one of your customes is trying to penetrate my network or do a DoS, I will be able to contact you and if you will do anything or just ignore it?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Jordi</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>@jordipalet</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:70.8pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>El 17/9/20 2:21, "lucilla fornaro" <<a href="mailto:lucillafornarosawamoto@gmail.com" target="_blank">lucillafornarosawamoto@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>I have some concerns about the “Abuse Contact Policy”.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>First of all, it does not offer a specific and regulated description of the term “abuse” and this opens the door to potentially bigger problems: a surplus of reports, discrimination/legal issues, and a waste of resources. Around the world, we can perceive what abuse is in very different ways.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Afrinic is not entitled to force members to report abuses and most importantly, this proposal does not represent Afrinic’s purpose.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>I, therefore, oppose this policy.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>Lucilla <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:106.2pt'>_______________________________________________ RPD mailing list <a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank">RPD@afrinic.net</a> <a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:70.8pt'><br>**********************************************<br>IPv4 is over<br>Are you ready for the new Internet ?<br><a href="http://www.theipv6company.com" target="_blank">http://www.theipv6company.com</a><br>The IPv6 Company<br><br>This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. 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