[AusNOG] Implementation: Abuse contact information

[Elly Tawhai]

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Implementation: Abuse contact information
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Hi AUSNOG Community,

 From 8 November 2010, all Internet number resource holders who hold
resources from the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) will
be required to provide a designated abuse contact in their APNIC Whois
Database entries.

An Incident Response Team (IRT) object reference will be mandatory when
any 'inetnum', 'inet6num', or 'aut-num' objects are updated or created
in the APNIC Whois Database.

This proposal achieved community consensus at APNIC 29. The aim of this
proposal was to improve the region's overall response to malicious
activity online.

In preparation for the 8 November implementation, we encourage APNIC
resource holders to take the following steps:

     - Prepare your own abuse contacts and processes, OR
     - Find an upstream ISP or external CERT to be the contact for
       abuse reports related to your network

APNIC has prepared information and links for resource holders on how to
establish abuse or CERT contacts in order to effectively deal with abuse
reports.

For more information on this policy implementation, please refer to:

     http://www.apnic.net/irt


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APNIC Secretariat                                 secretariat at apnic.net
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)   Tel: +61 7 3858 3100
PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia            Fax: +61 7 3858 3199
Level 1, 33 Park Road, Milton, QLD                http://www.apnic.net
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