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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/11/2012 2:11 PM, Kaveh Ranjbar
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<div>On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Florian Weimer <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:fw@deneb.enyo.de">fw@deneb.enyo.de</a>>
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Doesn't this invite mingling of allegedly privacy-relevant
data and<br>
abuse contact information?<br>
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<div>Hello Florian,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>None of the objects in the chain, "inetnum/inet6num/aut-num",
"organisation" and "role" are provisioned as, or designed to be
private data holders.</div>
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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'.<br>
I don't care about names, addresses etc.<br>
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That part can and likely should stay hidden away without making the
plain e-mail address any less useful.<br>
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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.<br>
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Arnold<br>
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<div>Thank you for your comment,</div>
<div>Kaveh.</div>
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<div>Kaveh Ranjbar,<br>
RIPE NCC Database Group Manager</div>
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