[anti-abuse-wg] Increasing Whois accuracy, was Policy disallowing spam from RIPE blocks

Suresh,

And on to #2...

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 20:19 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 2. Increasing accuracy in whois (including the descr: field) <- note,
> I am not saying "structure to a freeform field", just seeing that it
> matches the justification paperwork and its use

I think this may make sense. One problem is that right now nobody knows
what the supposed purpose of an assignment was except for the address
holder and the RIPE NCC.

The RIPE database group tends to prefer explicit fields for explicit
purposes. Okay, maybe that is just me. ;)  We could add something as
simple as:

assignment-purpose: [reason]

We could ask the RIPE NCC for guidance for 'reason' labels that cover
the vast majority of all assignments, like 'mobile phones' or 'cable
customers' or 'isp infrastructure'.

That would make it a lot easier for us, as 3rd parties, to know if the
assignment was being used incorrectly.

I suspect we'd get a lot of pushback from LIRs, but I could be wrong.

--
Shane