On 7/24/07, Chris L. Morrow <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Mattias Ahnberg wrote:
But it certainly would not hurt if there was a good way to report drones to ISPs and actually get some attention to the problem. A bunch of small streams quickly build up to a larger river in the end, I guess.
I'd point at the IETF/INCH-WG work for a standard abuse@ reporting process/format... If you send hundreds or thousands of reports to an ISP abusedesk (or ISPs' abusedesks) a standard machine parsable format is a key ingredient.
I think that atleast one ISP would love to see standards formatted reports about it's users (abuse@uu.net), provided that the appropriate information was included.
I think at that point, machine-readable formats should be passed up for some sort of abuse API interchange, where all involved parties can pull status information in real-time. You also have the benefit of automated systems having the ability to integrate into the system.