Hi Suresh On 07/03/2016 11:43, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On 07-Mar-2016, at 4:08 PM, denis <ripedenis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
The "abuse-c:" IS standardised. It is well defined and documented as THE method of defining abuse contact details in the RIPE Database according to the policy. Historically, as I mentioned in other emails, there was "abuse-mailbox:" defined in 5 object types
Sure - but as you point out nobody much seems to be implementing it so far - or at least, very few organizations.
It has been implemented for the whole of the address space allocated or assigned by the RIPE NCC. We spent 6 months 'encouraging' members to deploy it, then another year 'encouraging' PI holders to deploy it. Then a recent thread on this mailing list by Tim explained how the NCC was going to fill in a few gaps that were created before the new LIR process incorporated adding abuse-c as part of the process. So it is fully deployed and it is required for new LIRs.
So yes, I’d welcome abuse-c being implemented more widely. I’m tired of hunting up contact information from comment fields, in particular.
The legacy resources are the only resources in the RIPE Database that currently do not all have an abuse-c. If you use the tools provided by the NCC you should not need to do any manual lookups or read comments. cheers denis
—srs