[anti-abuse-wg] central whois

Hi Frank and list,

Frank Gadegast <ripe-anti-spam-wg at powerweb.de> writes:

> but an end user would never us a whois service and play with options
> ...

I won't bother you with the entirety of a rather scary story, but I've
had a colleague listed as admin-c for a large dial-in address pool.  One
day he received a death threat by some end user who assumed him to be
responsible for something someone has done using one of these addresses
(details over a beer at the next RIPE meeting if you press me).

If you make looking up the admin-c for an address as easy as some people
here like, this will lead to a significant-to-unbearable extra burden on
the people listed as admin-c; the result is rather likely that admin-c's
will have no option but to resort to rather heavy automated filtering.
I have significant doubt that this is in any way helpful.

So please, try to find some sort of balance here.  Evacuating an office
until the police arrive isn't something you---or your management---want
to happen more often than can be helped.


Cheers,

    Benedikt

-- 
			 Business Grade IPv6
		    Consulting, Training, Projects

Benedikt Stockebrand, Dipl.-Inform.        http://www.stepladder-it.com/