Dear Working Group,

as mentioned at last week's DB-WG meeting, I'd like to propose extending authenticating references to other objects.

Currently, only references to organisation objects can be protected with the mnt-ref attribute.

However, we could extend this protection to other types of objects:

- Abuse-c role
- Technical contact, admin contact, zone contact etc. (person/role)
- Organisation maintainer(s)

This would prevent unauthorised references to an organisation's objects (e.g. to impersonate a third party or mis-direct abuse email).

Please let me know your feedback on this proposal.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC