[address-policy-wg] RIPE DB: disclosure of commertial information

Hello!

> In most countries technical contacts don't decide which ISP to
> buy connectivity from...

But technical peoples are that neck directing the head ;-)

> Besides, there are other ways to find the info you want:
> - dig (nslookup) www.bibgcompany.su -> IP address
>    whois IP address -> you know which ISP's customer the company is
> - dig (nslookup -type=SOA) bibgcompany.su (SOA) -> E-Mail address
>    of responisble for dns
> - send mail to info at bigcompany.su ...
> - Meybe use a phone book and call in?

Ofcource yes. But RIPE DB is amazing tool if an attack directed againist 
certain ISP.

> In western (european?) countries there are trade laws which don't allow
> address harvesting (especially whois entries and other public data),
> placing unwanted offers, etc.

Unfortunallly, there is no such laws in eastern one...

I found an answer (bugfix?) to my question as using my contacts in assigned 
block againist using client's one.

But I still think that some fields in RIPE DB should be hidden from public 
access (for example, crypted MD5 password, business sensistive data like 
clients contacts and maybe other). Like changed: attribute is now.

Many other DB's have public and private access now, and it is good. For 
example, russian domains .ru and .su (RIPN DB) show only contact information 
for domain owner, and other data like mandatory passport and  registration 
address fields are hidden.

-- 
С Уважением,
Максим Тульев (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)