As everybody knows, the proposal "Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCC Database" has already been ratified/accepted more than a month ago, but still some RIPE workers seem not to know this fact: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-06 Authors: Tobias Knecht, abusix Proposal Version: 3.0 06 June 2012 Accepted: 17 September 2012 Working Group: Anti-Abuse Working Group Proposal type: New Policy term: Indefinite New RIPE Document: ripe-563 Under ยง1.0 it says "The "abuse-c:" will be mandatory for all aut-nums. Due the hierarchical nature of IP address objects, at least every direct allocated inetnum and inet6num needs to have an "abuse-c:". Inherited objects might have their own "abuse-c:" attribute or they will be covered by the higher level objects. " Today I got the following reply from RIPE (I removed the name of the sender with XXX, but can give it if required). Why is this person at RIPE still saying this: "At this moment is the 'abuse-c' not yet a mandatory field. There is currently a discussion on our mailing list in order to make this a mandatory field, but this policy proposal is still under discussion." ??? An official from RIPE please explain to the community what this RIPE person means with such a statement...: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: NCC#2012103209 abuse-c for inetnum 84.200.75.0 - 84.200.75.127 missing Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:32:35 +0200 From: RIPE NCC <ncc@ripe.net> Reply-To: RIPE NCC <ncc@ripe.net> To: U.Mutlu <security@mutluit.com> Dear madam/sir, Thank you for your e-mail. At this moment is the 'abuse-c' not yet a mandatory field. There is currently a discussion on our mailing list in order to make this a mandatory field, but this policy proposal is still under discussion. You can find the contact details that we have on file at: http://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/lookup/ripe/person-role/ACC-RIPE.html And: https://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/lookup/ripe/mntner/IWERK-MNT.html -- If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Best regards, XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX Customer Services RIPE NCC ============================================================ RIPE NCC Customer Satisfaction Survey Tell us about your customer services experience by filling out the anonymous, one-minute RIPE NCC customer satisfaction survey: https://www.ripe.net/contact/survey/satisfaction-cs/ ============================================================ On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:20:19 +0200, U.Mutlu wrote:
Hello, this is to inform you that the "abuse-c" entry for inetnum 84.200.75.0 - 84.200.75.127 is missing in the RIPE WHOIS database.
Regards, U.Mutlu security@mutluit.com