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

On Wednesday 10 November 2010 14:58:52 Tobias Knecht wrote:
> Am 10.11.2010 13:49, schrieb Marco Hogewoning:
> >>> I am missing your point here. These might be a lot of garbage
> >>> data. What is wrong about have ONE consistent way to publish
> >>> abuse contacts? Don't you find this "A Good Thing"?
> >>
> >> And how anybody could stop publishing this kind of info in remark
> >> fields?
> >
> > Yups, +1...we can discard the abuse-mailbox field but not the
> > remarks. That's why I suggested to get the statistics done again.
> > Most likely the majority of the objects are still covered with a
> > remarks line and at least that is better than nothing.
>
> Don't get me wrong. I do not want to delete data before there is a IRT.
> Since the IRT will be mandatory, RIPE is able to push things faster.
> Contact people, ask them to update, ...
>
> This will take some time. And there is no reason to say, that we will
> delete the existing abuse-mailbox attributes not before an IRT is setup.
> There is no reason not to change "end of 2012" into "end of 2013"
>
> The point is, that this discussion is going on for more than 7 years now
> and there is still no sufficient solution.
>

I agree with Tobias point on this. From what I read in the proposal I didn't 
understand that anything will be deleted, or any current information get 
lost. It is just a direction, that in the long run will result in publishing 
abuse contacts in a sigle well defined way.

>1) Poor data quality regarding points of contact
>2) The fact that there are multiple places people store this info

Having said this, of course the proposal addresses the point no2. For the data 
quality a first step is the 2010-09 proposal from what I understand.
 
Kostas

> Thanks,
>
> Tobias
>
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