[address-policy-wg] Clarification of policy requirements for contact information

On 2019 Apr 09 (Tue) at 11:28:19 +0200 (+0200), Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
:On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:16 AM Peter Hessler <phessler at theapt.org> wrote:
:
:>
:> Concrete suggestion:
:> I think that person objects should have the address and phone attributes
:> be changed from mandatory to optional.
:>
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:And that means optional as in opt-in, not opt-out.
:

Correct.


:> It may also be worthwhile for there to be a *private* way to register
:> addresses with RIPE NCC so they can use it for verification without
:> violating the privacy of natural persons.
:>
:
:Yup.
:
:Additionally, in the cases where all contact objects are personal with
:contact information hidden, there needs to be an abuse object that can be
:used. The quality of actually usable abuse contact information is
:regrettably low across RIR databases, contact information quality is not a
:RIPE specific problem.
:

I strongly disagree, but that is another topic.

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