Hi, On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote:
I am new to this mailing list, so forgive me if this has been covered before.
It seems there is a pretty clear need for an extra field in inetnum and inet6num records, specifically something like an abuse-c field referencing a person record.
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. Jan -- /~\ The ASCII / Jan Meijer \ / Ribbon Campaign -- -- SURFnet bv X Against HTML / http://www.surfnet.nl/organisatie/jm/ / \ Email http://cert-nl.surfnet.nl/