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

Hi Tobias,

You wrote:

> > Can you please clarify if the only requirement is that an abuse-c be
> > published? For instance, if an LIR published an abuse-c with 100%
> > bogus contact data, would that meet the requirements and so avoid the
> > address space being reclaimed?
> 
> The reqiurement that is defined in the proposal is that an abuse-c has
> to be published. The abuse-c will reference a person, role or
> organization object. The abuse-c is not an object itself.
> 
> This means, the bogus data will be handled in the same way bogus data is
> handled by RIPE NCC.
> 
> Hope this clarifies your question.

No, it doesn't really answer my question. I am no longer familiar with the way the RIPE NCC handles bogus data published in the database but as you are proposing that failure to comply with the policy should lead to deregistration, it seems only reasonable that the proposers should explicitly state what they intend to happen in various circumstances. 

I want to know whether this is proposal is going to result in large amounts of unmaintained data of questionable quality being registered, or whether some kind of maintenance process is envisaged and if so what that should be.

Leo