[anti-abuse-wg] the mandatory abuse field

Dear Michele

This is a very reasonable question. One of the technical advantages of 
the "abuse-c:" proposal is that it references an object in which is 
stored contact information. Currently the discussion is focussing on an 
"abuse-mailbox:" attribute in that object as the primary contact method.

As Tobias said, technically, we could easily add an additional 
"abuse-url:" attribute if required. Or anything else like "abuse-im:" or 
"abuse-mobile:". If we have the framework referencing a contact object 
then whatever the community wants inside that object is possible. You 
just decide what methods you want and what should be mandatory, 
required, optional, this or that, etc and the RIPE NCC can build it.

 From the point of view of the Abuse Finder tool the important step is 
to have one method of finding the abuse contact from an IP address. Once 
we can easily find it, you can have as much variation as you like in 
terms of contact methods. The Abuse Finder tool can just report to the 
user whatever options you have supplied.

Regards
Denis Walker
Business Analyst
RIPE NCC Database Group

On 31/07/2012 15:01, "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" wrote:
> Dumb question, but does the abuse field have to be an email address?
>
> Can it be a web address instead?
>
> Regards
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> Michele
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