[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Reg-RWS Improvements

[William Herrin]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 9:40 AM ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> ARIN is seeking feedback from the community (https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/consultations/2024/2024-7/) on a potential improvement to the RESTful API used to manage registration records, known as Reg-RWS. Specifically, we received a community suggestion to create a RESTful API method to determine the most specific NET object for a range.
>
> The stated benefit of this potential improvement is that it would allow a user to bootstrap functionality based on knowing a problematic IP address and learning more about it (delegation, Points of Contact, etc.).

Howdy,

Before spending the money, I'd like to see more thought given to the
automation this is meant to support. ISP abuse contacts are already
swamped with false reports where the complainant has misconstrued
innocent or forged packets, and with inactionable reports where the
problem is genuine but the complainant has left out detail critical to
solving it. Making automation of such false and inactionable reporting
even easier could cause further deterioration in that highly-manual
downstream process. Would it be worth facilitating automation of the
downstream abuse reporting process first, so that the recipients can
sift them with effective automation too?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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William Herrin
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