[atlas] Communication with probes' owners

Grzegorz, Paolo, all -

On 19.04.2019 12:26, Paolo Pozzan wrote:
> It seems a good idea.

+1.

> I don't think this will be abused

Quite the opposite IMHO, understanding that the anticipated means of
communication will be email and that the email address of a probe's host
will be generic, eg. <ripe-atlas-probe-[number]@atlas.ripe.net>,
redirecting all incoming emails to a final address. The redirection
would be configured via the portal then.

> and in case it would be easy to point out the spammers.

Maybe the NCC could and would operate a purpose specific spam catcher
for the 3rd level domain 'atlas'.

But after all I wouldn't really care as I am already running anti-spam
measures anyway.

YMMV though...

> Would this be useful also for other kind of messages?

Like what?

Best,

	-C.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     *Da: *"Grzegorz Ponikierski" <gponikie at akamai.com>
>     *A: *ripe-atlas at ripe.net
>     *Inviato: *Mercoledì, 17 aprile 2019 19:13:37
>     *Oggetto: *[atlas] Communication with probes' owners
> 
>     Hi all!
> 
>      
> 
>     From time to time I find probes which has incorrect country in their
>     description. For example #10333 supposed to be in US but from my
>     measurements it looks like it is somewhere nearby Amsterdam. If
>     something has 10ms RTT to target in Amsterdam, has hops with
>     `nl-ams14a-ri1-ae8-0.aorta.net
>     <https://stat.ripe.net/nl-ams14a-ri1-ae8-0.aorta.net>` description
>     and has ASN for LibertyGlobal then this probe is rather in Europe.
>     It takes some time to resolve such issue via RIPE team so maybe we
>     can get a form to send direct and short message to probe owner to
>     let him/her know that something is wrong with his/her probe and we
>     ask for verification. What do you think about that?
> 
>      
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Grzegorz