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Policy Implementation 8 November 2010: Abuse contact information _______________________________________________________________________

Today, the APNIC Secretariat implemented a policy proposal that reached consensus during APNIC 29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2010.

The APNIC Executive Council (EC) endorsed the proposal during its May 2010 meeting.

The policy proposal implemented is:

prop-079: Abuse Contact information

From today, an Incident Response Team (IRT) object reference will be mandatory when any 'inetnum', 'inet6num', or 'aut-num' objects are updated or created in the APNIC Whois Database.

This proposal achieved community consensus at APNIC 29. The aim of this proposal was to improve the region's overall response to malicious activity online.

APNIC resource holders may either:

- Prepare their own abuse contacts and processes, OR - Find an upstream ISP or external CERT to be the contact for abuse reports related to their network

APNIC has prepared information and links for resource holders on how to establish abuse or CERT contacts in order to effectively deal with abuse reports.

For more information on this policy implementation, please see:

http://www.apnic.net/irt

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APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100 PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 Level 1, 33 Park Road, Milton, QLD http://www.apnic.net _______________________________________________________________________ * Sent by email to save paper. Print only if necessary.