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

2019-03-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This policy is a trifle late though This same setup kept getting used to route whole /14s a few years back. I wonder what poor soul has those ranges now. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of furio ercolessi Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:30 PM To: anti-a

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

2019-03-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
+ Brian - how appropriate is it to call other posters liars like this? --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sascha Luck [ml] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:42 PM To: Hank Nussbacher Cc: Ricardo Patara; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 201

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

2019-03-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
achieving rough consensus on the list and then in the WG meeting in which this proposal is listed on the agenda. From: Brian Nisbet Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2019 at 10:43 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian , "Sascha Luck [ml]" , Hank Nussbacher Cc: Ricardo Patara , "anti-abuse-wg@ripe

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

2019-03-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
some very pointless discussion. On 21/03/19, 8:27 AM, "Sascha Luck [ml]" wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 07:06:40AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >The discussion does seem to be going in circles. A series of objections from Sascha and then various people countering i

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

2019-03-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Not at all silencing you. You have every right to talk. The list and the WG have every right to establish a consensus that may not gel with your wishes. On 21/03/19, 8:46 AM, "Sascha Luck [ml]" wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:36:01AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

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

2019-03-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ah that way. Then - Do we have rough consensus? If not at what point is it reached? --srs From: Gert Doering Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 1:07 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Sascha Luck [ml]; Brian Nisbet; Ricardo Patara; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re

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

2019-03-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ah good. So a few more days of this "sascha opposes it" while others chime in +1s. Fine then .. thanks for enlightening me. On 21/03/19, 1:12 PM, "Gert Doering" wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 07:38:34AM +, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

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

2019-03-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It would be a much needed thing if ripe legal were to chime in here so that they can issue an opinion on the proposal. This amateur theorizing isn't getting the discussion anywhere. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sascha Luck [ml] Sent: Saturday, March

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

2019-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
There's also the interesting comparison of how some TLD registries - many of them - act on canceling spam and phish domains while others go to every extreme not to do so. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of ac Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2019 11:16 AM To: an

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

2019-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Then again, this is my opinion, so I may be completely wrong (or not) :) On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 07:27:40 +0000 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > There's also the interesting comparison of how some TLD registries - > many of them - act on canceling spam and phish domains while others > go to

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

2019-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ll of the administration > aspects themselves. > > Now, TLD (or RIPE NCC) managing **"external"** complaints about direct > abuse, is, imho, outside the scope of an administrative authority and > would be the scenario Nick Hilliard refers to. Then again, this is my > opin

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

2019-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
eh.  All the power theft examples in the world are best discussed over a beer in the next RIPE meeting to spare the admins’ sanity here ☺ From: Lu Heng Date: Saturday, 23 March 2019 at 4:05 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: ac , "anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net" Subject: Re: [anti-abus

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

2019-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
rgument is factually not relevant at all > > > > and, more so: 2019-03 not proceeding would be counter to the ethical > > administration of resources, a dereliction of responsibility and a > > breach of trust implied in any such administration (as well as > > administrati

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Astroturfing?

2019-04-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
There are very few people who actively track BGP hijacks, the world over - even among the larger community of network security folks. More than one of those individuals is on this mailing list and has spoken up during the discussion. Identifying experts to detect and attest to cases of hijackin

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Astroturfing?

2019-04-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
explained my agreement to what was said I would appreciate that being pointed out to myself) On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:57:35 +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > There are very few people who actively track BGP hijacks, the world > over - even among the larger communit

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

2019-04-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Please. You keep trying to speak for the entire community and/or the ncc while all the time it is about your personal preference. —srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sascha Luck [ml] Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 4:03 AM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re:

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] anti-abuse-wg Digest, Vol 89, Issue 15

2019-04-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
You might find a hijacked prefix advertised solely to a single asn at an ix where it peers, and this for the purpose of spamming to or otherwise attacking whoever owns the asn. Most of these targeted announcements might not even be visible to anyone else. —srs

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] anti-abuse-wg Digest, Vol 89, Issue 15

2019-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
gt; On 5. Apr 2019, at 01:43, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > You might find a hijacked prefix advertised solely to a single asn at an ix where it peers, and this for the purpose of spamming to or otherwise attacking whoever owns the asn. Most of these targeted announcements mi

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

2019-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Right. You don't agree with it. So "we all" don't agree with it. Excellent reasoning there. On 05/04/19, 5:44 PM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sascha Luck [ml]" wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 06:41:52PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >RIPE can't tell anyone either what to announce

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

2019-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
t get unanimous agreement on this. Hence rough consensus. --srs From: Gert Doering Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 6:35 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Sascha Luck [ml]; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] On +1s and Policy Awareness AND Astro... some

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Mysteries of the Internet: AS65000

2019-04-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 15/04/19, 9:26 AM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of ac" wrote: >Sorry for top posting, but I fail to see how any of this is abuse related? Given that it is RFG raising this, I think it is a pretty safe bet that this ASN is associated with some abusive activity that he has seen.

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Mysteries of the Internet: AS65000

2019-04-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
of it, and won't ask him about it till he's ready to disclose. On 15/04/19, 10:02 AM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of ac" wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:40:35 +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On 15/04/19, 9:26 AM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of ac"

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

2019-04-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Is this despite RIPE operating a routing registry as a subset of the IRR and allowing ASNs to announce their routing policies? Despite RIPE allocating ASNs that are used in routing? On 17/04/19, 7:09 PM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Peter Koch" wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 01:41:22PM +

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

2019-04-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
For those saying "Dutch court" etc please do be careful what you're asking for. Experience in two decades of anti abuse work says that if a particular form of abuse is allowed and even waved away so there's an enforcement gap, and that form of abuse is used to successfully attack something impor

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

2019-04-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
They had a fiduciary duty not to hand out whole /14s of v4 space to snowshoe spammers set up as eastern european LIRs not too long back They would now as well if such duty wasn't abdicated each time The duty doesn't magically go away of course even if it is abdicated and denied --srs

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Are they is the question For example - ARIN just reclaimed a large number of IPs from an actor that created a large number of shell companies. http://m.slashdot.org/story/355802 --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Nick Hilliard Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
How was ARIN able to reclaim 750k IPs showing fraud including shell company setup then? The USA is if anything even more litigious than Europe is. You also go to court with "clean hands", so if the invalid abuse contact is also accompanied by a proliferation of malware etc a judge may not react

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
But if a policy asking ripe ncc to investigate fraud and withdraw resources were to be proposed we would again hear the "we are not the internet police" trope :( --srs From: Alex de Joode Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 11:32 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramania

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Legality of proposal (apologies)

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
As I read the proposal cutting off bogus LIRs seems to be the goal rather than cutting off a legitimate but careless player. There seem to be quite a few such given the coming wg meeting has a preso on just this topic. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Ca

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gert Doering; Suresh Ramasubramanian; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:13:12PM +0200, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > Anyway, this is a curious thing ... last week I was a

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
nt: Friday, May 17, 2019 3:59 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Gert Doering; JORDI PALET MARTINEZ; Brian Nisbet; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:24:51AM +, Suresh Ramasubra

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I am sorry but where did I say close down all LIRs? --srs From: Gert Doering Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 4:09 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Gert Doering; JORDI PALET MARTINEZ; Brian Nisbet; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I would instead suggest that RIPE wind itself up and transfer it's operations to ARIN or APNIC, if we are about to make broad and sweeping thought experiment proposals --srs From: Gert Doering Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 4:37 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramani

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
n Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 5:51 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") top post -- Bengt Gördén Resilans AB

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
From: Bengt Gördén Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 6:50 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") no -- Bengt Gördén Resilans AB

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If it weren't effectively property there wouldn't be firms listing large blocks of v4 space as an asset while going out of business, and there wouldn't be brokers specializing in acquiring and reselling this space. And yet in the RIR paperwork this is a simple reassignment of a netblocks regist

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
A case can be made that lax "not the internet police" policies that earlier allowed a single shady LIR to get multiple /14s and now, as per Furio, allows serial registration of bogus LIRs to gather up IP space is actually making abuse and security teams worldwide expend rather more man hours th

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
7:33 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Ronald F. Guilmette; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") On Sat, May 18, 2019, 3:44 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian mailto:ops.li...@gmail.com>> wrote: If it weren't

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
More a question of locus standi - how many court cases have we seen so far where an RIR has filed a brief or an affidavit making such a point? --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Töma Gavrichenkov Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 2:37 PM To: Ronald F. Guilmette C

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Any abuse / acceptable use policy presupposes that while the vast majority of your users are legitimate a non trivial percentage of them are bad actors who need to be dealt with appropriately. Making that call on which customer to apply which policy on is something any abuse desk does literally

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
19 9:37 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") Hi, indeed, and this is why we should just not go there. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
So I don't know about other regions not having the same needs. APNIC has adopted this for example. https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals/prop-125 --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sérgio Rocha Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 11:10 PM To: anti-ab

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ot by deploying unsuitable anti spam measures category and have to delay accepting mail. --srs From: Suresh Ramasubramanian Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 4:18 AM To: Sérgio Rocha; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Valid

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Interesting email abuse header extract

2019-06-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Without looking at the other received headers there's no way to say that this is header forgery. Many mail clients will HELO as whatever IP they're provisioned on, and both IPs belong to a provider in Belarus. So unless this header was inserted in a way that there's no continuity with the othe

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Interesting email abuse header extract

2019-06-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
elf, with the goal of attacking 3rd parties (or "framing" 3rd parties) is still a very evil form of internet abuse that is not really discussed or talked about much? Andre On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:27:13 +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Without look

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Hijacked route announcements can be carefully targeted to just a victim AS for any attack. If that victim AS holder complains to their national CERT the language here precludes the CERT from reporting into RIPE. That is a technicality as I can't imagine RIPE would refuse reports from a CERT,

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
You are right. I have very little hope of anything concrete coming out of this process, however. On 10/09/19, 4:04 PM, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Sérgio Rocha" wrote: Hi, I agree with Carlos. It is better to have an imperfect policy than not to have any policy and watch these

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 Review Phase (Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-09-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vicarious liability / criminal negligence is also a thing in several jurisdictions so “let us do nothing and we won’t be liable” doesn’t always work. --srs From: Nuno Vieira Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 5:11 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Sérgio Rocha

[anti-abuse-wg] Massive prefix theft in AFRINIC - attributed to an insider

2019-12-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Congratulations, Ron Guilmette. You’ve been doing this for years and this is your biggest success yet. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html tl;dr - The insider is apparently Ernest Byaruhanga, AFRI

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [aa-wg-chair] Draft Anti-Abuse WG Minutes from RIPE 79

2019-12-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I can only commend LACNIC for doing the right thing and serving as a clearing house for such community outreach. Route hijacks that cause major operational impact are certainly something that impacts the community as a whole, and while this is resolvable by operators, quite often finding the ri

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] FW: [aa-wg-chair] Draft Anti-Abuse WG Minutes from RIPE 79

2019-12-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ruediger has a nice full list of all the other ways a prefix can be mis-announced or route leaked. Typos, incompetence in setting up load balancers, so on and forth. However, the number of these that are malicious and that’d be of interest to the AAWG, is much smaller, wouldn’t you say? From:

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [routing-wg] An arrest in Russia

2020-01-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I am not a member. However, the increase in such incidents and the risk of regulators or lawsuits occurring mean that RIPE NCC does need to perform more due diligence than would be consistent with a “we are not the internet police” position. It is in their own members’ interest that they’re abl

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [routing-wg] An arrest in Russia

2020-01-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ramasubramanian Cc: Michele Neylon - Blacknight , Sergey Myasoedov , Nikolas Pediaditis , anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [routing-wg] An arrest in Russia Hi, On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 03:55:07PM +, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > I am not a member. However, the increase

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Applause. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Richard Clayton Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 8:32 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") In message <02d201d5cb84$89d6

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Is Dutch law really the inhibitor here? Or the possibilities that Richard outlined? I seem to recall previous opta nl proposals that took a sensible view of network abuse, some years back --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Brian Nisbet Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It would be interesting if a large number of people who actually work for the security / infosec / abuse teams of various ripe members were to attend the aawg meetings instead of a clutch of mostly IP / dns / network people. That won’t take away the impact of organisations that don’t want to do

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
abused customer and a malicious actor, that is a judgement call that every large provider abuse team has had to face so far --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Randy Bush Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 9:38 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: anti-abuse-wg

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] @EXT: RE: working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It’d be interesting to take individual names of the people most vocal in their objections and feed them through LinkedIn - that assumption you made about dealing with spam would soon be tested. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Randy Bush Sent: Thursday,

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] @EXT: RE: working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Randy Bush Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 5:21 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] @EXT: RE: working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") > Itʼd be intere

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] @EXT: RE: working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Stewardship and fiduciary responsibility for IP space. Now that’s a much needed and sadly lacking thing. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Randy Bush Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 8:33 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] @EXT: RE: working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Not you either. There are many others vocally arguing for complete inaction. —srs From: Gert Doering Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 1:34 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Randy Bush; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] @EXT: RE: working in new

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-04-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The we are not the internet police crowd for instance And the amazing number of ripe luminiaries, wg chairs etc that just happened to be in the room for an AOB session during a previous wg with the intention of voting Richard Cox out of his co chair position. There just doesn’t seem to be any a

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Fw: Re: @EXT: RE: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-04-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If they were all kids in their mommies basements instead of part of an organised crime underground as often as not .. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Javier Martín Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:39:05 PM To: Marcolla, Sara Veronica ; Maxi ; JORDI PALET

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] My response to Ronald Guilmette

2020-04-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The email he sent has been positively presidential in style I must say. For a specific value of president of course. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Töma Gavrichenkov Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:02:58 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [an

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
> remove this ability to conduct business, there would need to be sound > legal justification for doing so. > > Nick > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
this are probably voices in the wilderness at this point. —srs --srs From: Nick Hilliard Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 2:16:34 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Serge Droz ; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 30/04/2020 01:58: > Why would I ask about something I am posting as an individual in my > personal capacity?

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:42:09PM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >RIPE NCC need not decide whether a behaviour is legal or not in order to >prohibit use of r

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
: Thursday, April 30, 2020 7:58:14 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Sascha Luck [ml] ; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 30/04/2020 14:07: > What would get discussed in an

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vernon Schryver’s FUSSP is still relevant since what, 2000 or so? --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Richard Clayton Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 6:28:42 AM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
As long as the ASNs that are not maintaining an abuse address are published along with the no complaints list, I personally have no complaints. From: anti-abuse-wg Date: Monday, 4 May 2020 at 3:59 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Has this even been put to a vote or is it the same group of extremely vocal RIPE regulars against it and the same group of extremely vocal security types for it? Rough consensus has its limitations in such cases. From: anti-abuse-wg Date: Saturday, 9 May 2020 at 4:22 AM To: Nick Hilliard Cc:

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Doering Date: Saturday, 9 May 2020 at 3:57 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Randy Bush , Nick Hilliard , anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") Hi, On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 01:12:32AM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wr

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

2020-05-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
6:10 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Gert Doering , anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: About "consensus" and "voting"... Hi Suresh, Gert, All, "member organizations represented by" -- this only happens at the RIPE NCC GM, twice a year. The PDP doesn't happen

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

2020-05-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The problem is that many of the people objecting - I won’t say all, I know many of you over the years - are not from a security, or more properly an abuse and policy enforcement background. Almost all of it is layer 9 --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Carl

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

2020-05-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
session introduced agenda item to boot Richard Cox from his co chair role was one such example. --srs From: Nick Hilliard Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 12:09:08 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] About "consensus

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

2020-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
What Randy said applies in spades to the original strong community that the Internet used to be. Today and over the past several years we have - 1. Organisations evolving into or being taken over by corporations who are more concerned with profit (keeping a bad customer despite pressure to the

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

2020-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/10/spam_volumes_plummet_after_atr.html From: Nick Hilliard Date: Monday, 11 May 2020 at 8:15 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] About "consensus" and "voting"... Suresh Ramasubram

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

2020-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Weird. Forwarding a (redacted) offlist email that pointed out that the archive URL I’d posted – which was dug out of my mailbox – is missing from the aawg archive, along with the rest of the email from Jan 2011. From: Suresh Ramasubramanian Date: Monday, 11 May 2020 at 9:04 PM That was from

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
want to go and filter spam for example. From: anti-abuse-wg Date: Monday, 11 May 2020 at 10:48 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 11:56:58AM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >In

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
and networking people face from having resources taken away for originating such traffic. From: Gert Doering Date: Monday, 11 May 2020 at 11:12 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Sascha Luck [ml] , anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
. I keep getting the sense of a long running old closed club where anything above packet pushing and dns aren’t quite operational and just barely tolerated / mostly ignored for the most part. --srs From: Rob Evans Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020 at 12:21 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Sascha

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Report & Co-Chair's Decision on Proposal 2019-04

2020-09-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
comments, or in a way that did not make it clear where they stood on the proposal: Job Snijders, Elad Cohen, Alistair Mackenzie, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Hans-Martin Mosner, Shane Kerr, Sascha Luck, Arash Naderpur, Richard Clayton, Alessandro Vesely, Randy Bush The Review Phase of the proposal las

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Report & Co-Chair's Decision on Proposal 2019-04

2020-09-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Probably through regulation as you say. If ripe doesn’t want to be the Internet police they’ll suddenly find that there actually is such a thing created and with oversight over them, sooner or later. Nobody is going to like the result if that happens, neither the government nor ripe nor its memb

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] IPv4 squatting -- Courtesy of AS44050, AS58552

2020-12-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
+1 – most of the activity on this list has been people from the anti abuse community come up with suggestions that the RIPE regulars find unworkable, and then many people spend lots of time pointing out why the proposal is unworkable. So far I have not seen one case of a proposal coming in from

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] IPv4 squatting -- Courtesy of AS44050, AS58552

2020-12-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Please feel free to come up with workable proposals then 😊 At leat that way the conversation stays operational From: Michele Neylon - Blacknight Date: Wednesday, 2 December 2020 at 8:14 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian , IP Abuse Research , Serge Droz Cc: "anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net" S

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] IPv4 squatting -- Courtesy of AS44050, AS58552

2020-12-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I know him and trust him enough to have workable proposals. So, thank you very much for your opinion but I’m afraid I fail to share it. From: Elad Cohen Date: Wednesday, 2 December 2020 at 8:38 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian , Michele Neylon - Blacknight , IP Abuse Research , Serge Droz Cc

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] AS16019, vodafone.cz == idiots

2020-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
They shot themselves in the foot. The email was sent to ab...@vodafone.cz It apparently forwards on to spa...@vf.dkm.cz and this forwarding breaks SPF, and domains with strict -all SPF records like RFG's tristatelogic.com will fail SPF validation. I guess it is an interesting way to cut down o

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Question about spam to abuse inbox

2021-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Depends on the provider you work for and what services they provide. Randy is (I think) still with NTT rather than a cloud service, vps operator type shop, so a lot of your questions aren’t going to apply to his environment. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Anti-social assholes

2021-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This is a standard problem with even Google Domain name(s) registered on Google Registrar Spam from google apps mail Domains hosted on a google cloud IP Redirect hosted on google firebase Report to google safe browsing Feed URLs to virus total - also owned by Google Suppose you have a phish campa

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] UCEPROTECT DNSBL possibly abusive practice and RIPEStat Blacklist entries widget

2021-03-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
True. If you’re listing only two BLs - one reputable and the other UCEPROTECT.. there are many other public block lists, ok fewer than there were in the 2000s but still .. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Nuno Vieira via anti-abuse-wg Sent: Wednesday, Ma

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] UCEPROTECT DNSBL possibly abusive practice and RIPEStat Blacklist entries widget

2021-03-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Do you see email providers of significant size using it? --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Christian Teuschel Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 9:57:50 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] UCEPROTECT DNSBL possibly abusive practice and

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] UCEPROTECT DNSBL possibly abusive practice and RIPEStat Blacklist entries widget

2021-03-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
As far as I can see that is probably an artefact of an overly helpful customer service person trying to troubleshoot mail delivery for you --srs From: Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:47:38 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] UCEPROTECT DNSBL possibly abusive practice and RIPEStat Blacklist entries widget

2021-03-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Since you brought up m3aawg I will note that it does have a best current practice for block lists which specifically declares that asking for payment for removal is not acceptable RIPE should consider only listing block lists that are managed according to accepted best practices https://www.m3

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] UCEPROTECT DNSBL possibly abusive practice and RIPEStat Blacklist entries widget

2021-03-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
May I suggest that you add as many more blocklists as you can (RBL is a specific blocklist founded by MAPS and now acquired by Trend Micro so that term isn’t used in the industry), as long as they are well maintained and conform to best practices. Thanks --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Input request for system on how to approach abuse filtering on Route Servers - bad hosters

2021-05-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ask them, you’d be surprised. From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg Date: Thursday, 20 May 2021 at 4:29 PM To: Laura Atkins Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Input request for system on how to approach abuse filtering on Route Se

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] False positive CSAM blocking attributed to RIPE

2021-09-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
RIPE has so far firmly been in the “we are not the Internet police” category and I don’t see that changing. Not sure what happened here without any further context. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Jeremy Malcolm Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:26

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] personal data in the RIPE Database

2022-06-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Good points here. There are no shortage of bad actors who will be happy to register a netblock as a private individual if this means their data is obfuscated (and in whois, even forged / fake data is quite useful as part of a consistent pattern). There have even been bogus LIRs - it used to be

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] personal data in the RIPE Database

2022-06-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
, 2022 3:43:13 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: denis walker ; anti-abuse-wg Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] personal data in the RIPE Database On Sun, 5 Jun 2022, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Good points here. There are no shortage of bad actors who will be happy to > register a netbloc

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] personal data in the RIPE Database

2022-06-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Yes and when private parties asking about whois get told “we are not the internet police”, that is the ripe community’s very own “not in my backyard” --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Richard Clayton Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 7:45:03 PM To: anti-abuse-wg

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