[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC's proposed implementation of Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE Database

On 15/11/2012 2:11 PM, Kaveh Ranjbar wrote:
>
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Florian Weimer 
> <fw at deneb.enyo.de <mailto:fw at deneb.enyo.de>> wrote:
>>> ...
>>
>> Doesn't this invite mingling of allegedly 
>> privacy-relevant data and
>> abuse contact information?
>
> Hello Florian,
>
> One of the reasons that it is only tied to the "role" 
> object and not the "person" object is to avoid those 
> issues. A role object is not designed to hold personal 
> information, it is a representation of a unit in an 
> organisation. The "abuse-mailbox:" attribute is also 
> supposed to represent the generic email address of the 
> contact point for the abuse handling entity within an 
> organisation, not a real person. We will place clarifying 
> notifications about this when users enter the data.
>
> None of the objects in the chain, 
> "inetnum/inet6num/aut-num", "organisation" and "role" are 
> provisioned as, or designed to be private data holders.
As a user of the RIPE database for reporting SPAM, I really 
don't need any of the associated personal information behind 
the 'abuse address'.
I don't care about names, addresses etc.

That part can and likely should stay hidden away without 
making the plain e-mail address any less useful.

All that is really necessary to make that e-mail address 
effective and useful, that it actually is valid and mail to 
it will be acted on, promptly.

Arnold
>
> Thank you for your comment,
> Kaveh.
>
> ---
> Kaveh Ranjbar,
> RIPE NCC Database Group Manager


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