[anti-abuse-wg] Sources of Abuse Contact Info For Abuse Handlers

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 05:01:30PM +0100, de Brün, Markus wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are still lots of CIDRs for which the RIPE DB does not 
> return a dedicated abuse contact. In some cases, you can find an appropriate 
> contact in the "remarks" or other records - which is difficult to parse 
> automatically. In other cases there is no contact information at all.

And this is mostly the case of legacy resources. Hope we will deal with
that.

> Section 6.6.1 of this document says that "it [is] mandatory for every resource 
> object (inetnum, inet6num and aut-num) to have a dedicated abuse contact."
> 
> <nitpicking> ripe-563 states that "every direct allocated inetnum and inet6num 
> needs to have an ???abuse-c:???", which is different from "every" as is the quote 
> above. </nitpicking>

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. RIPE-563 also states the same
about aut-nums. And I'm pretty much sure that word "every" used in
section 6.6.1 of the document mentioned above is used properly due to
the hierarchical nature of IP address objects.

> In fact, afaik you cannot add an abuse-c record to an inetnum object at all, 

Not directly, but indirectly through organisation objects it is possible
for any single inetnum object.

> can you? abuse-c records are usually added to higher level objects like LIR 
> ORG and then inherited by the lower level inetnum objects. If you want to set 
> a dedicated abuse-contact for an inetnum, you need to add a reference to an 
> ORG object with the corresponding abuse-c record. (see 
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/creating-and-finding-abuse-contacts-in-the-ripe-database)

This works the same way for allocations and assignments (and legacy as
well).

Piotr

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