[db-wg] Re: abuse-c: proposal

On Feb 09, MarcoH <marcoh at marcoh.net> wrote:

 >> This is true, I agree that this must be a goal, but abuse-mailbox is not
 >> the only way to reach it. Maybe RIPE could provide a web page to query
 >> the DB for abuse desk addresses (which would report no other data), or
 >> maybe the port 43 server could be modified to always check for IRT
 >> objects for inetnum/inetnum6 queries and report the address in a comment
 >> at the top of the reply with big eye-catching ASCII art.
 >> So far only one tool writer contributed to this thread, and he reported
 >> that both abuse-mailbox and irt could be used by his tools.
 >
 >To provide such a behaviour, we need to store the information somewhere in
 >the database and free-form remarks or a more generic e-mail attribute is
 >IMHO not the way.
 >
 >Adding abuse-mailbox would provide a clear way to to store this
 >information, next step can be to change the whois server for an extra
 >query type and/or modified output.
While IRT objects *already* provide an easier way to store this
information...

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ciao, |
Marco | [4526 escBmKC6O5ewg]