Suresh, On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 07:17 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
So - hiding stuff from the whois is just not going to cut it as much as RIRs fixign their process, and SPs adopting best practices.
To be clear, I'm not advocating hiding things in the Whois, I just don't see any value in spending resources to find unresponsive contacts if the only point is to label them in the Whois. I guess when you are trying to report a problem it can save the effort of sending an e-mail if the address has no contact. But I figure that most reporting is automated at least a little, so overall the actual efficiency gained is minimal. Now if there was some actual implications about the resource - which to be honest, means revoking the allocation - then it would make sense. The problem is, others have pointed out, making a requirement to have an abuse e-mail role that replies to messages is such a low bar it actually has no real value. But maybe others think that forcing address holders to set up an e-mail autoresponder is worthwhile? -- Shane