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

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote, On 17/04/2012 10:09:
> Brian
>
> One of my fears is that if you introduce an abuse-c without any obligation to maintain then RIPE will be the target for a lot of criticism

To clarify, the abuse-c as proposed will be mandatory for all aut-nums. 
If this proposal moves forward, the RIPE NCC will undertake an impact 
analysis and that will facilitate a conversation around transition. 
Also, the NCC do audit LIRs, although not every LIR is audited each year.

So this proposal does not introduce abuse-c without obligation. It does 
not introduce further data verification requirements (for abuse or 
anything else) over and above what is currently in place for the database.

I do believe that this proposal will help and I think that not 
attempting to improve abuse contact data until a full data verification 
infrastructure is in place, will mean that we won't solve a lot of the 
problems that this proposal hopes to address for a very long time.

It's quite possible there isn't a perfect order of how to do these 
things, but I think it would be a shame if this proposal was defeated 
because it didn't do everything or because the environment wasn't 
perfect. Other opinions may differ.

Brian.