[anti-abuse-wg] 2011-06 New Policy Proposal (Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCC Database)

Hi Tobias,

On Dec 1, 2011, at 5:28 am, Tobias Knecht wrote:

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> The most elegant part is, that the next step will be easier.

I think this is a problematic statement. It implies that this is the first step on a road towards a destination we have not yet been informed about. At the very least, it would have been courteous to publish a roadmap document prior to publishing the policy proposal, so that participants in the WG can review it in the context you intend it to have.

I have no problem with improving the abuse reporting system but from my perspective, adding way to embed e-mail addresses in the database is not going to help significantly. The people who want abuse reports to so they can correct issues with their networks already have ways to publish that information and the people who don't want to deal with reports will either not use the proposed abuse-c objects or will populate them with broken data.

New ways of putting information into the database will not fix abuse report handling. Unless you share your broader vision for how abuse report handling will improve, all this proposal does is add cost to RIPE NCC members and confusion to naive database users.

Regards,

Leo