Re: Dealing with abuse complaints to non-existent contacts

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Aug 10, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
> > It would be nice if allocations would be revoked due to invalid/fake contact info.
>
> That’s been debated many times, in most of the RIRs, and has not resulted in any persistent policies that I remember 
> offhand.  The tide may turn, as it were, if problems get sufficiently bad, at which point these sorts of policies 
> might receive sufficient support to be passed, and stick.

Which, of course, would not actually cause address space to be magically returned to the RIR. The RIRs are not the 
Internet Police and attempting to use the Whois database as a stick to beat “bad” ISPs will simply result in the Whois 
database becoming less and less relevant.

What might work would be for the RIRs to annotate registration data records with stuff like "valid/invalid contact 
information” (accessible programmatically via RDAP) and allow ISPs to build filters based on that annotation.

But yes, this has been debated many times and nothing ever seems to get done.

Regards,
-drc

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