On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote:
|>A lot of inetnum records I have seen have a remarks field identifying |>the abuse ocntact, but this is in an inconsistent format making it |>difficult to automate in any way. It also seems that a lot of network |>administrators (admin-c) do not feel they should administer their |>network to remove viruses, etc, and get quite annoyed when contacted |>regarding abuse. |> |>What would be the procedure for proposing such a new field? | | | It's already there :). | | Please check | http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/irt-object.html | | and the TF-CSIRT effort to make it easier to use this: | http://www.dfn-cert.de/team/matho/irt-object/ | | It's not perfect but it's there.
I did look at the IRT object, but it looked far far more complex than the simple requirement of "who do I email abuse to for an IP address", which is what the "remarks" fields ina lot of inetnum objects are providing.
Ditto. I haven't bothered with an irt object either. That is also why there are only 40 irt objects in the RIPE DB. -Hank
Indeed, I am somewhat concerned by the "Creation procedure" which looks overly complex and a manual process.