[anti-abuse-wg] 2011-06 Discussion Period extended until 7 May 2012 (Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCC Database)

Hi Frank,

Frank wrote:
> Leo Vegoda wrote:
> > Marco Schmidt wrote:

[...]

> > It is disappointing that this new proposal is still focused on a one-time 
> > process of adding additional contact information and does not address 
> > ongoing management of the published information. Until there is a policy 
> > requiring contact information to be regularly maintained, proposal 
> > 2011-06 is of limited value.
> >  
> Not at all, its good to seperate definitions and other procedures like
> management or validation of abuse contacts, if you remember how hard
> it is to achive consensus.
> 
> Lets starts simple and lets add other parts later.
> 
> I will be happy to prepare a validation draft, if the community
> wants it.

My issue is mainly with the way the proposals are ordered. Creating new requirements for types of contact data to be published before agreeing on a contact data management policy risks creating a situation where a new layer of contact information of questionable quality is added as a one-time only event. Unless you have a pre-existing contact data management policy you are just making the problem bigger and putting off the day when the mess has to be cleared up.

Agreeing a way to manage contact data should be a prerequisite to the creation of new contact types.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda