[acm-tf] Abuse Contact Information - Policy Proposal

"Alessandro Vesely" wrote the following on 17/10/2011 12:23:
> A couple of notes...
>
> On 15/Oct/11 13:18, Tobias Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Policy Text
>>
>> This is a proposal to introduce a new (mandatory) contact attribute
>> named "abuse-c:", which can be referenced by inetnum, inet6num and
>> aut-num objects. The "abuse-c:" reference to an abuse handler should
>> make use of the hierarchical nature of the resource data to minimize the
>> workload on resource holders and facilitate good database design.
>
> It is not clear from that text that we want abuse-c to be inherited.
> IMHO, optimizations and database principles should be considered a
> fortunate coincidence.  The semantic point is that we consider ISPs
> responsible for the kind of traffic that their customers operate.
> (The recent A2B vs Spamhaus story may illustrate this concept.)

I would have said that we want it to be inheritable, rather than 
inherited by conceptual default. I may have misinterpreted the feeling 
of the TF, but this is something we'll have to be very careful about and 
"responsible" is a big word. If this is phrased or spun in such a way 
that people believe that it will make them and all of their networks 
immediately responsible for traffic coming from a separate AS & PI block 
that they route, I think we won't even get out of the starting gate.

Brian.