Re: [db-wg] Abuse Complaint procedures

[Dominic Spratley <]

Dear der Mouse

I can understand your frustration at the apparent lack of response from the 
RIPE NCC in ensuring address space contacts in the Whois Database are accurate.

The RIPE community decided that only the maintainers of objects in the 
database may make changes to data.  The RIPE NCCs role is to implement this 
decision for the RIPE community.  The RIPE Whois Database is a public 
database and therefore, although we (the RIPE NCC) aid in its operation, we 
are not responsible for its content.

The RIPE community develops and sets policies through an open, bottom-up 
process of discussion and consensus-based decision making.  If you wish to 
see changes to the policies that the RIPE NCC implement, the RIPE community 
has published the following process:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/pdp.html

We are happy to assist you in drafting any policy proposal you would like 
to present to the community.  The policy proposal template can be found here:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/pdp.html#appendix_b


If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely,


Dominic Spratley,

Registration Services Manager
RIPE NCC