<html><head><style id="axi-htmleditor-style" type="text/css">p { margin: 0px; }</style></head><body dir="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: fixed;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Ola,</span><div style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><div>It's unclear to me what you are trying to accomplish with this policy:<div><ol id="ext-gen3246" start="1"><li>ensure ripe members have a working (as in receiving mail) abuse email address;</li><li>ensure ripe members have a working abuse email address and process incoming mails;</li><li>ensure ripe members have a working abuse email address and read it;</li><li>ensure ripe members have a working abuse email address and act responsibly on notices.</li></ol><div>It seems you want to verify that a human reads the abuse box. However this will tell you nothing about how an organisation actually deals with abuse. So it will only burden ripe members to no avail.</div><div class="x-axi-signature"><br></div><div class="x-axi-signature">It is my belief ripe should stick to technical verification that a abuse email box exists and is able to receive mail. Ripe is not the internet sheriff :)</div><div class="x-axi-signature"><br></div><div class="x-axi-signature">Cheers,</div><div class="x-axi-signature">Alex</div></div></div></div><div class="x-axi-signature"><br><div class="x-axi-signature" style="; font-size: 10pt; font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;"="">-- <div>IDGARA | Alex de Joode | +31651108221</div></div></div></body></html>