Leo Vegoda wrote:
On 15 Jun 2007, at 4:26pm, Denis Walker wrote:
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This is why I think we should focus attention first of all on these questions. But I don't think this is a simple as it looks. Maybe the original wording of policies said we need contact information for troubleshooting. The world has moved on a lot since then. Now accountability is also important. Governments and LEAs want to know "who" is responsible for Internet resources.
I agree.
A faceless role object will not be good enough.
I doubt person objects would be, either. That's what organisation objects, do.
The "who" is probably the enduser. This is often a customer of an ISP. They will not have an organisation object. If we drop person objects, the full picture is split over many databases. An LEA has to go to the RIPE Database with a list of IP addresses. Find the organisations, then go to the individual organisations to find the "who" from their customer databases. It is better to keep this full picture in the RIPE Database. But maybe it does not all need to be publicly visible. cheers denis RIPE NCC
Regards,
--Leo Vegoda IANA Numbers Liaison