Hi Frank and list, Frank Gadegast <ripe-anti-spam-wg@powerweb.de> writes:
but an end user would never us a whois service and play with options ...
I won't bother you with the entirety of a rather scary story, but I've had a colleague listed as admin-c for a large dial-in address pool. One day he received a death threat by some end user who assumed him to be responsible for something someone has done using one of these addresses (details over a beer at the next RIPE meeting if you press me). If you make looking up the admin-c for an address as easy as some people here like, this will lead to a significant-to-unbearable extra burden on the people listed as admin-c; the result is rather likely that admin-c's will have no option but to resort to rather heavy automated filtering. I have significant doubt that this is in any way helpful. So please, try to find some sort of balance here. Evacuating an office until the police arrive isn't something you---or your management---want to happen more often than can be helped. Cheers, Benedikt -- Business Grade IPv6 Consulting, Training, Projects Benedikt Stockebrand, Dipl.-Inform. http://www.stepladder-it.com/