> -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Otis [mailto:do...@mail-abuse.org] > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:41 PM > To: joel jaeggli > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation, replaced by registered use > > On 9/13/09 12:49 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: > > Frank Bulk wrote: > [] > >> If anything, there's more of a disincentive than ever before for > >> ARIN to spend time on netblock sanitization. > > > > This whole thread seems to be about shifting (I.E. by externalizing) > > the costs of remediation. presumably the entities responsible for the > > poor reputation aren't likely to pay... So heck, why not ARIN? > > perhaps because it's absurd on the face of it? how much do my fees go > > up in order to indemnify ARIN against the cost of a possible future > > cleanup? how many more staff do they need? Do I have to buy prefix > > reputation insurance as contingent requirement for a new direct > > assignm > > Perhaps ICANN could require registries establish a clearing-house, where > at no cost, those assigned a network would register their intent to > initiate bulk traffic, such as email, from specific addresses. Such a > use registry would make dealing with compromised systems more tractable.
If they would just comply with RFC 3514, such a registry would be unnecessary. > > This registry would also supplant the guesswork involved with divining > meaning of reverse DNS labels. We could standardize a string to be used in rDNS of dynamic pools, if you want. Lee
