On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:45, Denis Walker <denis@ripe.net> wrote:
We have already weakened its main purpose by making the above attributes optional. For Incident Response Teams these should be mandatory attributes. Now they are required attributes, but as we cannot distinguish between the two different roles this object now serves we cannot enforce this requirement. If we loosen the requirements any further for the IRT object it will no longer serve its original purpose.
According to the technical howto [1] the irt object already has a concept of trust levels, albeit as a remark. Formalizing a level attribute would allow unverified mostly-optional irt objects to exist in parallel to unverified mostly-required and trusted introduction all-required ones. Richard [1] http://www.ripe.net/db/support/security/irt/irt-h2.html