Contact E-Mail Address Requirements
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Publication date
- Affects
- Draft document
- DRAFT: IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region
- Author
- Proposal Version
- 1.0 - 23 Aug 2006
- All Versions
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- Withdrawn
- 15 Feb 2007
- State Discription
- Withdrawn by the proposer and the Address Policy Working Group chair as not enough consensus was reached
- Working Group
- Address Policy Working Group
- Proposal type
-
- Modify
- Policy term
- Permanent
This proposal suggested that working and up-to-date contact e-mail addresses should be maintained at all times for address space that is registered in the RIPE Database.
This proposal suggests that working and up-to-date contact e-mail addresses should be maintained at all times for address space that is registered in the RIPE Database.
Rationale:
a. Arguments Supporting the Proposal
From time to time, our security department has had to expend considerable effort to find working e-mail addresses for organisations responsible for IP addresses registered in the RIPE Database. In some instances, no working address could be found or a time consuming visit to a website was required to make contact.
By making the wording of the existing policy about contact information in the RIPE Database more explicit, we should see less spam and abuse and more rapid correction in network operations.
b. Arguments Opposing the Proposal
RIPE Documents already require documentation to be maintained, which implies "correct documentation.