Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 and over-reach

2019-03-22 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > The aim of the 2019-03 proposal, as far as I understand it, is to grant the > RIPE NCC the authority to make formal judgements about alleged abuse of > network resources with the implicit intention that unless the party involved > ends the alleged abuse, the RIPE NCC would enforce the jud

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-03-24 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Gert, > Now, I do share the wish to "do something!!" against BGP hijacking. > > So, maybe a more workable way forward would be to change this into a BCP > ("the RIPE anti-abuse community states with full backing from the RIPE > community that BGP hijacking, as defined in , is considered > unwa

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] On +1s and Policy Awareness AND Astro... something...

2019-04-09 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ronald, > Given what you've just said, I don't think that it would be accurate > to say that I am an uneuqivocal supporter of the present -process- > for adopting RIPE policy proposals. In fact, quite the contrary. > My hope would be that if working group `X' endorses some policy which > could

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Periodic Reminder: List Conduct

2020-01-20 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > I understand perfectly the concerns of those colleagues who actually want to > promote a better responsible behaviour and ensure the resources allocated to > the LIR-s are not abused or there is an effective mechanism to stop abuse. > However, as the chair kindly pointed, RIPE policy devel

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Report: Law Enforcement Agency Requests 2019

2020-03-25 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > We have published a transparency report that details the nature > of the requests we received from Law Enforcement Agencies in 2019. > > You can find the report at: > https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-740/ I see a small contradiction in there. At the beginning it is stated that "

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] About "consensus" and "voting"...

2020-05-09 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Randy, >> Otherwise we change the way the working Groups works it will remain >> unchanged for ever. I agree that we must get a way to vote or another >> democratic way to get decisions. > > the goals of the ripe community are stewardship and cooperation, not > voting, deciding, and "getting t

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Potential New Chair: Introduction & Next Steps

2022-01-27 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Markus, > Thank you Brian for the introduction and thank you all for supporting Brian's > "out of cycle" proposal. > > My name is Markus de Brün and I am a computer scientist working for the > Federal Office for Information Security in Germany (better known as BSI). > BSI is home of the nati

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Anti-Abuse Training A Reality!

2023-02-03 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, Amazing! Thanks to all involved ❤️ Cheers, Sander > On 3 Feb 2023, at 11:13, Brian Nisbet wrote: > > Colleagues, > > After much hard work by both the RIPE NCC Learning and Development Team and > members of this Working Group, the Anti-Abuse training is now a reality! The > training is

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Co-Chair selection

2024-05-07 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > Brian is willing to accept his nomination. Tobias and I are happy to continue > to work with him. It would be great to hear from you if you support Brian as > well. Definitely! Sander -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription optio

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] AS43890

2014-11-17 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ronald, > It now seems certain to me that the absence of anything even remotely > approximating proper validation of RIPE route objects is not, in fact, > a problem which is limited to just inter-RiR situations. Apparently, > RIPE member LIRs can just as easily hijack the IP blocks of other >

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Report updated: (#594134) Conspiracy for the practice of organized crime with phishing

2015-10-05 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > Op 5 okt. 2015, om 15:34 heeft James Gannon het > volgende geschreven: > > Personally I find this email to be entirely non-sensical, your specific > dealings with cloudflare or other vendors are in my opinion not relevant > discourse, but instead of ccing the WG on these why not write u

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] WHOIS (AS204224)

2015-11-02 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ronald, > Op 2 nov. 2015, om 07:38 heeft Ronald F. Guilmette > het volgende geschreven: > > The claim clearly being asserted by the RIPE WHOIS record for AS204224 > is that this is an *IN-REGION* (Russian) company, one which, as I noted, > is apparently a 16 year old parts & equipment suppli

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] WHOIS (AS204224)

2015-11-02 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Roland, >>> The issue isn't the announcement of out-of-region IP space. The issue >>> is the self-evidently fradulent nature of the registration of, and the >>> WHOIS record for, AS204224. >> >> Again that lousy "self-evidently" argument. Please don't use that, it is >> often used by people w

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] WHOIS (AS204224)

2015-11-03 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Roland, > The old saying is "The best is the enemy of the good". Validation and/or > verification of RIPE WHOIS data can be improved, even though any system > which attempts to do so most probably cannot be made foolproof. Ok > No. You're still thinking in terms of constructing an iron-clad

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] WHOIS (AS204224)

2015-11-03 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Sasha, >> I would actually prefer any such proposal to come from within >> the regular RIPE community, rather than from one of us >> outsiders. > > For once I agree completely. If this goes to an actual proposal, > this needs to be in APWG as it would be: > > a) address policy b) affecting th

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] WHOIS (AS204224)

2015-11-04 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Denis, Op 4 nov. 2015, om 18:17 heeft denis het volgende geschreven: > On 04/11/2015 15:32, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:05:28AM +, ripede...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: >>> the sponsoring LIR should be restricted to an LIR in the same >>> geographical/political/language a

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] WHOIS (AS204224)

2015-11-06 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ronald, > On the one hand, you say that all these entities (both people and > businesses) have consented to have RIPE NCC store and distribute > their contact data. On the other hand you say that RIPE NCC has > no knowledge of the terms and conditions of the contracts they have > signed. Give

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Solving the issue of rogue ROUTE objects in the RIPE Database

2015-11-06 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ronald, > Anything that achieves that goal has my vote (_if_ I even have a vote). There is no voting in RIPE policy development, which is based on consensus. And everybody who wants to participate is part of forming consensus :) Cheers, Sander

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [routing-wg] [db-wg] Solving the issue of rogue ROUTE objects in the RIPE Database

2015-11-11 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Tim, >> STEP 3: continiously check if the block is allocated in the foreign RIR >> database, if no longer, delete the route-object from RIPE's IRR db. > > We share concerns raised by Job. We believe this adds a lot of complexity to > the implementation, and introduces an unacceptable risk of

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [db-wg] objection to RIPE policy proposal 2016-01

2016-03-11 Thread Sander Steffann
Hello Denis, > Sorry Elvis but you are neither a software engineer nor a regular user > inputting data into the RIPE Database. So your unsubstantiated statement of > 'poor' does not carry much weight. Excuse me, but you do not get to decide that a fellow working group member's contribution doe

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] AS201133

2016-06-29 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ronald, > Which LIR issued AS201133? > > Is this supposed to be some sort of a secret? Not really, it is documented in the RIPE database. Here is how you can find it: First search the database for the AS: https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html?searchtext=AS201133 There you see the AS wi

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] RIPE Charter

2016-08-10 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Ronald, > Lastly, I must ask the question: What is RIPE NCC, exactly? This is a common question. I think this section on https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe gives a good starting point: > What's the difference between RIPE and the RIPE NCC? > > Although similar in name, the RIPE NCC and

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Bringing Law Enforcement Into the RIPE Community

2017-08-01 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Sascha, > Op 1 aug. 2017, om 18:19 heeft Sascha Luck [ml] het > volgende geschreven: > > It certainly is "interesting". For instance: > > "we recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Europol to > foster even better cooperation." > > https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ri

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] regarding proposal 2017-02

2017-10-02 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Jasper, > Furthermore: > Since you are stating in the rationale “If organisations are not cooperative, > the RIPE NCC ultimately has the possibility to close their RIPE NCC > membership and deregister their Internet number resources”. This ultimate > possibility is not described in the curre

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Decision on Proposal 2017-02

2018-03-14 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > Op 14 mrt. 2018, om 15:22 heeft Name het volgende > geschreven: > > This does not address black hole email addresses, nor does it validate that > an email address is an abuse email address. I could put YOUR email address as > my abuse contact. Because your email address is valid, it wou