-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan Meijer wrote: | 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. 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 in a lot of inetnum objects are providing. Indeed, I am somewhat concerned by the "Creation procedure" which looks overly complex and a manual process. I will however read up on irt objects in more detail and get one created. Thanks for the feedback. - -- Rev Adrian Kennard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE//rWCHBb4e52L0Y0RAu+rAKCMUG2qBtxZvZTIxmomdaWzrprB2QCaAuwI zLr4T5mCGF6stm/KbpgFgtY= =Rc3P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----