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

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:51:24PM +0100, Tobias Knecht wrote:

Hi,

> > at by the end of the document why I should prefer an abuse-c attribute
> > to an irt object.
> 
> The IRT Object was degraded in the last few years. For example the
> creation process was made pretty simple to allow more people to use it
> as a abuse-c. The idea would be to go back to the original intent of an
> IRT Object. So if you are running a cert I would suggest using the IRT,
> if you are running an abuse department I would suggest using the abuse-c
> and if you are running both, like many huge ISPs already do, I would
> suggest to use both.

This approach would be quite contrary to goals of the proposal (such as: ".. it helps all kinds of institutions to find the correct abuse contact information more easily"). Most users cannot distinguish between a CERT or an abuse department.

Also, I cannot see why implementing another object holding the same data as an IRT would make things better. 

Cheers, Adrian