[anti-abuse-wg] Proposal for technical details for abuse contact information in the RIPE Database

Denis,

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 16:25 +0100, Denis Walker wrote:
> The RIPE NCC Database Group has now published an article on RIPE Labs
> with a detailed explanation of how we propose to implement abuse
> handling with an "abuse-c:" attribute referencing a ROLE object.
> 
> https://labs.ripe.net/ripe-database/abuse-handling-in-the-ripe-database

Thanks for putting this together.

Basically, I think that the basic split between ABUSE and STANDARD ROLE
objects does not make a lot of sense, and will likely lead to user
confusion and frustration. Some of the ideas you've presented do make
sense, but make sense for any contact data rather than restricting them
via arbitrary business rules.

One thing that I think would be a positive step forward for the RIPE
Database is *not* to restrict references to ABUSE ROLE, but rather to
restrict *all* references to person or role objects. I believe the
database currently still allows me to reference any person/role object
if I want to. This is a bug, not a feature, and I think adding
"mnt-ref:" to person/role objects would be a better way forward than
adding yet another special case. (This was introduced as a special case
to the irt type, but then generalised in the organisation object.)

I also suggest that normal access controls should apply to roles when
used for abuse. Abuse desks don't like spam either.

--
Shane