On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:51:28PM +0100, Christian Rasmussen wrote:
If some LIRs need some kind of trust in order to avoid this I would suggest (as done before) that the abuse mail address is checked when creating a maintainer object. By checked I mean that Ripe NCC sends a mail to the mail address and wait for a reply before creating the maintainer object, this can actually be done with software so I don't think it will be a big burden on Ripe NCC. If this is not enough, if some LIRs fear that the LIRs in question would try to do an update and this way insert an invalid email address Im sure it wouldn't be a problem repeating the check procedure.
This is useless other then some verification that on the time of creation somebody replied to one mail sent to that specific address. Unless you design an audit procedure to check the validity and response of the address at random intervals it doesn't add anything to check it on creation time except for extra time as the system waits for your reply. Let's keep it at running a syntax check... MarcoH