Hi *
We've gone over the changes discussed and agreed on for improving the ability to find abuse information in the RIPE database, and have come up with the following modifications. Please have a look.
I have one Point that I still not get about this.
abuse-mailbox:
Specifies the e-mail address to which abuse complaints should be sent.
An e-mail address as defined in RFC 2822.
There were discussins of changing the 'changed:' from RFC2822 email-adresses to References (Person/Role). Now we introduce another RFC2822 attribute. In my opinion this aproach is wrong. an inetnum or route does not have an email or even read emails. There is *someone* there handling abuse, who has an email (maybe designated for abuse) that is reading malis and hopefully doing something. What do I miss here. My view. It is valid to add the abuse mailbox to objects that describe Prrsons or Groups of them (person:, role:, organisation:), but to implement a reference to them for objects that describe ressources (inetnum, inet6num, route, ....). 'abuse-c:' for example. This would make it imho easier to maintain for larger organisations. It would not make it more complicated for small organisations (the tech-c gets an abuse-mailbox, and the inetnum an abuse-c in the inetnum). And everything else proposed in ordering and behaviour of the flags can in the same way be incorporated with that. But maybe I really miss something here? lG uk -- Ulrich Kiermayr Zentraler Informatikdienst der Universitaet Wien Network - Security - ACOnet-CERT Universitaetsstrasse 7, 1010 Wien, AT eMail: ulrich.kiermayr@univie.ac.at Tel: (+43 1) 4277 / 14104 PGP Key-ID: 0xA8D764D8 Fax: (+43 1) 4277 / 9140