Inaccuracy of IRT-Objects Aftab A. Siddiqui Cyber Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd/ IPv6 Task Force Pakistan/ NRO NC/ASO AC

APNIC Members in Pakistan Total Members: 86 – Very Large: 1 – Large: 6 – Medium: 16 – Small: 21 – Very Small: 34 – Associate: 8

Status of IRT Object

IRT-CYBERNET-PK We receive approx 200 network related abuse reports per day. 70% complaints are of Spamming 20% complaints are of network scanning or IRC Botnets. 5% complaints are of Phishing 5% are miscellaneous complaints that include Copyright Infringements.

Reporting Abuse We report approx 100 network abuse per month which crosses our threshold. Not productive to report spam generating from hotmail, yahoo and Google. We only report to SPs and Enterprises. Issues in AP Region: – No response from addresses mentioned as abuse contact. – box full or doesn’t exist messages. – No abuse box exist. – Usually no issues while reporting within Pakistan as we know people who can fix the issue.

Bottom Line APNIC should keep a check if IRT objects are updated and working. NO this is not operational stuff for RIR, its like keep a clean and working resource database.

APNIC – About Us APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is an open, membership-based, not-for-profit organization. It is one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) charged with ensuring the fair distribution and responsible management of IP addresses and related resources. These resources are required for the stable and reliable operation of the global Internet. Source :

Inaccuracy of IRT Objects There are two main reasons for data inaccuracy in whois: – Wrong data is published intentionally to camouflage illegal actions. – Wrong data is published because object owners forget to update the whois information (e.g. staff change). There can be few other reasons like typos, too many resources to manage, etc.

How to fix it? APNIC sends an every year to all its corporate contacts to keep the data clean and accurate. APNIC forces all members to create IRT objects. APNIC should send to all abuse contact mentioned in IRT and block myapnic access in case of no response. Once an IRT object is created by member, APNIC should add it to all the resources of that member. APNIC should regularly run a process to clean up invalid data.

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