[anti-abuse-wg] 2010-08 New Policy Proposal (Abuse contact information)

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:45, Denis Walker <denis at ripe.net> wrote:

> We have already weakened its main purpose by making the above attributes
> optional. For Incident Response Teams these should be mandatory
> attributes. Now they are required attributes, but as we cannot
> distinguish between the two different roles this object now serves we
> cannot enforce this requirement. If we loosen the requirements any
> further for the IRT object it will no longer serve its original purpose.


According to the technical howto [1] the irt object already has a
concept of trust levels, albeit as a remark. Formalizing a level
attribute would allow unverified mostly-optional irt objects to exist
in parallel to unverified mostly-required and trusted introduction
all-required ones.


Richard

[1] http://www.ripe.net/db/support/security/irt/irt-h2.html