On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:14:13PM +0100, Christian Rasmussen wrote:
Hi Marco,
Okay, I think I now understand better what you mean. There are different levels of check of entered abuse address:
1. Nothing 2. Syntax check 3. Address validity check (as previously described) 4. Response time check
level 4 would be to run random audits on the information present in the database. Response time will only influence the time it takes to create or update an object I never suggested on testing it, it's just a side effect on level 3.
I very much disagree with you that level 3 should be worthless, I think its about as good as it can realistic be.
How do you propose level 4 should be accomplished without in some way costing ressources (considerably more than level 3)?
If you want audit on LIRs then abuse is probably not the only thing which should be thoroughly checked. Also, what would you do in case some LIRs choose not to respond to abuse complaints?
I also still support the proposed idea with abuse address in inetnum/maintainer, but if the argument against is the lack of trust I think a level 3 check would solve the problem.
Level 3 only checks the situation at the time of insertion it is in no way a guarantee to the user that it's still working when he retrieves the information and as such doesn't add much to just do a syntax check on the attribute. Grtx, MarcoH