On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote:
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?
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:47:36PM +0100, Christian Rasmussen wrote:
Realistically I think the majority of inetnum objects needs to have such a record before anything will change. Therefore I believe it has to be mandatory for all new inetnum objects to reference an abuse address.
I suggest to make this mandatory for _all_ (new and existing) that have a tech-c entry, by copying the tech-c entries. Afterwards everyone can change his abuse-c, and I think most tools will stop spamming all other email addresses shortly if enough people ignore those reports that are sent multiple times.