[db-wg] Proposed changes for abuse

Hi *

> We've gone over the changes discussed and agreed on for improving the 
> ability to find abuse information in the RIPE database, and have come up 
> with the following modifications. Please have a look.

I have one Point that I still not get about this.

>    abuse-mailbox:
> 
>       Specifies the e-mail address to which abuse complaints should be
>       sent.
> 
>         An e-mail address as defined in RFC 2822.

There were discussins of changing the 'changed:' from RFC2822 
email-adresses to References (Person/Role). Now we introduce another 
RFC2822 attribute.

In my opinion this aproach is wrong. an inetnum or route does not have 
an email or even read emails. There is *someone* there handling abuse, 
who has an email (maybe designated for abuse) that is reading malis and 
hopefully doing something. What do I miss here.

My view. It is valid to add the abuse mailbox to objects that describe 
Prrsons or Groups of them (person:, role:, organisation:), but to 
implement a reference to them for objects that describe ressources 
(inetnum, inet6num, route, ....). 'abuse-c:' for example.

This would make it imho easier to maintain for larger organisations. It 
would not make it more complicated for small organisations (the tech-c 
gets an abuse-mailbox, and the inetnum an abuse-c in the inetnum).

And everything else proposed in ordering and behaviour of the flags can 
in the same way be incorporated with that.

But maybe I really miss something here?

lG uk
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