Re: [anti-spam-wg@ripe.net] Abuse contacts in RIPE database and whois

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:14:43PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > > records in. Btw. there was a discussion about the exactly same subject
> > > nearly exactly one year ago. Did something happen?
> > 
> > It has been discussed there as a followup to ripe-47 and ripe-48, things
> > will be implemented. Please see the minutes for the DB-WG for more detail,
> > but it comes down to implementing things as requested.
> 
> [AP 48.5 RIPE NCC] To implement whatever consensus is reached
> 	on the mailing list regarding abuse contact.
> 
> If we reach consensus to use the DNS RR RP, we're done ?
> 
> Additional comments from those against using the DNS RR RP ?

There is nothing here to reach consensus about.  Whoever wants to add
DNS RR RP records to his name server zones can do so.

The tricky thing is to convince those infamous tool authors to *query* 
for RP records, but as no tool authors are *here*, there isn't very much
the working group can do.

What the working group can do, and actually seems to be on a good track,
is to identify problems due to the current way the RIPE whois works 
(listing changed: and notify:, and people abusing that for abuse mails,
while not listing the irt: object by default) and improve *this*.

Gert Doering
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