[db-wg] [anti-abuse-wg] Cleanup work for "abuse-mailbox:" in certain ORGANISATION objects, following policy 2011-06

Tim,

On 03/03/2016 15:20, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote:
> Dear working group,
>
> As you know, the RIPE NCC completed the work for the 2011-06 policy on 15 February, and "abuse-c:" is now added to all organisations that hold resources allocated or assigned by the RIPE NCC.
>
> Going forward we propose to:
> - Remove "abuse-mailbox:" for all ORGANISATION objects that *have* "abuse-c:" in a one-off operation
> - Introduce a business rule to prevent adding "abuse-mailbox:" to ORGANISATION objects, urging people to use "abuse-c:" instead
>
> Please note that the proposal above does not force anyone to use "abuse-c:", it just enforces that "abuse-c:" is used instead of "abuse-mailbox:". Having both attributes on an ORGANISATION object is extremely confusing, and currently updating "abuse-mailbox:" does not work in the LIR Portal organisation object editor. We therefore believe that the cleanup is needed, and we hope that this will not be controversial.
>
> We would like to ask the working group for the mandate to do the cleanup proposed above.

Thanks for this. For my part I think these are good steps to take.

Brian

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