Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Mandatory abuse contact information in RIPE region started with phase 1.


RIPE Anti-Abuse 


Phase 1 of ripe-563 "Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE Database" is
now being implemented, as announced on 19 March 2013.

According to ripe-563, all resources allocated or assigned by the RIPE
NCC will need to have an abuse contact email address included in their
RIPE Database registration. During the first six months of
implementation (phase 1), all Local Internet Registries (LIRs) must add
an abuse contact attribute ("abuse-c:") to their LIR's ORGANISATION
object to provide abuse contact information for all of the allocated
address space under their LIR.

Since the initial announcement two weeks ago, we are pleased to report
that 24.8% of the RIPE NCC's allocated IPv4 address space is already
covered with an abuse contact. More statistics will be sent to the RIPE
Anti-Abuse Working Group mailing list.

In phase 1, we will send notifications to LIRs that haven't added abuse
contact information to their LIR's ORGANISATION object. If this
information is not added by the LIR by the end of phase 1, we will
automatically add the LIR's contact email address (which is already
publicly listed at: <https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/>) as their
abuse contact. LIRs can always change this information as needed.

More information on the implementation plan, including phase 2 (covering
PI space and ASNs) is available on RIPE Labs at:
<https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/implementation-details-of-policy-2011-06>


How to add "abuse-c"


An explanation of how to add "abuse-c:" to an LIR's ORGANISATION object
as well as how to fine-tune abuse contact information for
sub-allocations and assignments is outlined here:
<https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/creating-and-finding-abuse-contacts-in-the-ripe-database>

Please kindly consider adding abuse contact information as soon as
possible to the ORGANISATION object(s) you control or maintain in the
RIPE Database.

Kind Regards,

Kaveh Ranjbar,
RIPE NCC Database Group Manager