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.
Since almost every user is using the web a nice system could be to redirect reported PCs through a proxy the ISP controls where
there are a few nice walled garden solutions... there isn't in general one-size-fits-all, and they aren't always easy to convince folks to deploy :) but sure.