[db-wg] abuse-c

MarcoH wrote:
> 
> Not to judge on all, but I get the feeling that there are a lot of people
> who don't know what the fields mean, let alone they will know on how to
> use the irt object.

For the record, there is one other way you might use to indicate an abuse 
contact, via the "trouble:" attribute in the role object:

    Contains information on who to contact when there are problems.

Also, what various contact information means is not clear.  What 
administration does the "admin-c:" do exactly?  Only update the RIPE 
Database?  Coordinate with the RIPE NCC?  Is it the CEO of a company?  The 
manager of the IT department?  Or an independent contractor who handles 
all the details of connectivity?

I know that all of these interpretations do appear in the database.  A 
similar range of meanings are attached to the "tech-c:" attribute.

On of the problems that was identified when the irt object type was 
defined is that there are a lot of meanings of "incident" that the "irt" 
could be responding to.  The same applies to an "abuse-c:" attribute. 
Does abuse mean spam?  DoS?  Illegally trading movies?  E-mailed viruses? 
  Pornography?  Gambling?  Hijacking address space?

Do you have different desks for these different types of abuses?  If so, 
does it make sense to have different contacts for them?  (History shows 
this doesn't matter too much - as users tend to send to every e-mail they 
can find.  But in the future, it would make modifying output of tools to 
only display relevant information easier.)

-- 
Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC