Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

["Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

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.