[anti-abuse-wg] Time Stamps (?)

Network abuse, in particular the kind of network abuse where some spammer
gets hold of an IP address block so that he can proceed to do snowshoe
spamming out of it, is somewhat easier to detect and correctly identify
within the ARIN region than other RiR regions due to the fact that ARIN
whois records all contain date/time stamps.

The date/time stamps on ARIN whois records help to make the true situation
apparent whenever a spammer obtains a new IP block and proceeds immediately
to start spamming from it.  (One look at the whois often makes it obvious
why some specific block has suddenly lit up like a Christmas tree, i.e.
pumping out spam like there's no tomorrow... because some new resident
has just recently moved into that spcific bit of IPv4 space.)

So anyway, has it ever been considered to add date/time stamps to RIPE
whois records, at least for record _creation_ if not also for last
modification time?


Regards,
rfg