On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:48:56AM +0200, Tobias Knecht wrote: Just few comments.
Currently within the RIPE region, the biggest problem for network operators is to know the best place to publish abuse contact information. (IRT, abuse-mailbox, remark-fields, and in addition to that, in which object they should publish them?) On the other hand abuse reporting parties having a huge problem by finding a correct abuse contact in the variety of possibilities.
Since there is a specialized object (IRT) for abuse contacts, this should be mandatory, to stop the uncontrolled growth.
Your arguments could be summarize like that: "there is a mess". Making irt object mandatory has nothing to do with cleaning it up. Yet, I do think that making it the only place of putting "abuse contact" is ok.
4.3 Delete abuse-mailbox fields in all objects that do not define an IRT, and delete the trouble field everywhere until end of 2012.
I don't agree to delete the trouble field everywhere since those are in remarks right now and remarks are just free text remarks. ;-)
- Networks will be able to supply their own, direct contact information for abuse departments.
They are able to do that right now. Nothing new.
- Abuse complaints will not be sent to the "wrong" contact any more.
Ekhm. Don't take me wrong. I know only one well known organization which sends me abuse complaints using wrong data. It is abusix.org. And I do have proper contact information put in person/role/inetnum/aut-num objects for all of my customers and I do a regular cleanup and updates.
5.2 Disadvantages
- No disadvantages are foreseen.
A lot of work for LIR staff.
7. Effect on NIRs ------------------
It would be of benefit to the whole Internet community if NIRs were to implement a similar abuse contact scheme in their whois databases. But this would be another proposal.
Do we have NIRs in RIPE region?? ;-) Best regards, Piotr Strzyżewski -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski@polsl.pl