[db-wg] More-specific abuse-c

Hi David,

thank you for the in-depth answer!

* fransossen at yahoo.com <fransossen at yahoo.com> [2016-11-03 12:12]:
> A) Being able to indicate the AS and prefixes covered by a specific
> abuse email directly in the role object used as abuse-c: .
> 
> Annoying to set up, not very intuitive at first, but less annoying
> than having to create new org objects per network segments requiring
> different role objects as abuse-c: each time.  Covers the need of
> LIRs with PA, AS number and PI resource holders in terms of
> potential granularity.

I personally would also find this annoying and quite a bit
unintuitive. ;) I *DO* like the granularity but I don't think it
outweighs having all of that pushed to a single object instead of
having multiple abuse-c's that are probably managed by different
maintainers (giving customers the opportunity to manage their own
abuse-c object). Also I would image this would necessitate quite a bit
of special parsing in the database software.


> B) Allow abuse handler to be added directly on the
> Inet(6)num/Aut-num entries in the DB.

This is what I would prefer right now. It is low cost to implement, it
is easy to parse (use abuse-c: if available, else go to the
organisation abuse-c).

> I am not quite having any other ideas on how to proceed that would
> fit within the current RIPE DB rules...route objects pop to mind,
> but would also have their quirks.

I would prefer to have option B) right now. *If* we need more
granularity it would probably need to be a full fledged (meaning: more
complicated) solution. I imagine a new object-type that can be a CIDR
less-or-equal your allocation/assignment that references a abuse
contact (which would bring in all sort of questions regarding
authorization etc.) or an inet(6)num: with special type ABUSE-CONTACT
(or something else).

I think that this is a special case that probably not many people have
use for. Right now having abuse-c at inet(6)nums would ease the pain
for quite a few people.

Best Regards

Sebastian

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