[address-policy-wg] 2006-04 New Policy Proposal (Contact e-mail Address Requirements)

On 23 Aug 2006, at 13:24, Filiz Yilmaz wrote:

> A new RIPE Policy proposal has been made and is now available for
> discussion.
> This proposal suggests that working and up-to-date contact e-mail
> addresses should be maintained at all times for address space that
> is registered in the RIPE Database.

A well intentioned proposal, I support the spirit of it.

I do recommend that we clarify what a 'working' email address is  
(e.g. state that the mailbox should also be manned, by someone who  
can read at least the local language).  I also think that 4.0's  
modification should encourage an ISP to make best efforts to limit  
all network abuse, not just 'abusive messages'.

The rationale 'b' doesn't seem to be complete, the document seems to  
be truncated at   'which implies "correct documentation'.

I also think we should offer for debate, an amendment that LIRs  
should man a mailbox at an address which might be known by only ripe  
and the LIR.  This could, in an efficient organisation, be a  
'fasttrack' escalation mailbox that solves the issues described in  
Rationale A of the proposal.

Andy (AJBD-RIPE)