Re: [db-wg] abuse-c

[Jan Meijer <]

Hi,

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote:

> I am new to this mailing list, so forgive me if this has been covered
> before.
>
> It seems there is a pretty clear need for an extra field in inetnum and
> inet6num records, specifically something like an abuse-c field
> referencing a person record.
>
> A lot of inetnum records I have seen have a remarks field identifying
> the abuse ocntact, but this is in an inconsistent format making it
> difficult to automate in any way. It also seems that a lot of network
> administrators (admin-c) do not feel they should administer their
> network to remove viruses, etc, and get quite annoyed when contacted
> regarding abuse.
>
> What would be the procedure for proposing such a new field?

It's already there :).

Please check
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/irt-object.html

and the TF-CSIRT effort to make it easier to use this:
http://www.dfn-cert.de/team/matho/irt-object/

It's not perfect but it's there.

Jan

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