Re: [db-wg] abuse-c

[Rev Adrian Kennard a@localhost]

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Jan Meijer wrote:
| Hi,
|
| On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote:
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|
|>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.

I did look at the IRT object, but it looked far far more complex than
the simple requirement of "who do I email abuse to for an IP address",
which is what the "remarks" fields in a lot of inetnum objects are
providing.

Indeed, I am somewhat concerned by the "Creation procedure" which looks
overly complex and a manual process.

I will however read up on irt objects in more detail and get one
created. Thanks for the feedback.

- --
Rev Adrian Kennard
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