[anti-abuse-wg] Status of 2011-06

Hi!

On 01/12/2012 01:54 PM, Frank Gadegast wrote:
> You will have no access restrictions for the abuse contact anymore
> and the new abuse-c will be filled in a very short period because
> it will be mandatory.

The addresses entered into our ripe objects are not private data. They are public addresses for the purpose of ripe-stuff. Following your idea abuse-cs would always be copies of the admin-c.

A reasonable approach towards what seems to be your communicated aim would be:
Drop all *-c in favour of a single contact, which is meant as contact for ripe-stuff. This is of course public as it's meant that way. In case you actually wish for the possibility of multiple, specific contacts, the straightforward and all-compatible solution would be to add optional further specific contact data - that may be used by people who wish to direct mail to different specific addresses. Translated into the current state that would be: use an optional abuse-mailbox attribute (if this were mandatory, our objects would always just hold a copy of the e-mail attribute).

> But maybe they will not find them attractiv at all, because they
> know, that they will only reach professionals there, that can easily
> seperated spam from good mail and that are trained not to click
> every link in an email ;o)

Yeah, that will certainly teach them.

> But anyway: it will be possible to protect personal contacts much
> better in the future, if the proposal gets through, because access

Sorry, but it's just a stupid idea to put private data into public databases.

Regards,

	Chris