Privacy, Broadband, & the Database

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:21:50PM +0000, Sam Bradford wrote:
> I'm writing for your opinions, suggestions, and comments regarding updating
> the RIPE database with assignments made for broadband (xDSL) customers. As
> you may or may not be aware, ADSL is now being offered in the UK, which 
> has very strict data protection laws. We offer ADSL services as a NATted

IP addresses and data related to them is international resource.
I don't think you should apply any law in UK when we talk about
RIPE(.int) resources.

> home users or home businesses.  Updating the RIPE database with an IP assignment
> requires an end-user Admin contact, and the person object requires a telephone
> number. Worst case scenario is that we update the database for a home business
... 
> After brief consultation with the RIPE NCC Hostmasters, we have begun
> updating the database with our role object as Tech Contact and the customer
> as Admin contact. For the phone number, we are using our own, noting as much
> in a 'remarks' field. For example:

I assume we are still supposed to maintain single nic-hdl per person.
What's the plan now, if my LIR would need to refer to the same contact
person? It doesn't make sense to direct any calls to your LIR, if the
problem lies at customer network at our LIR's addresses.

> phone:       +44-845-272-0444
> remarks:     Phone is Demon Internet Helpdesk
 
The same rule should apply to all assignments. If a (home) network
contact person doesn't want to be 'listed', s/he can try to live
without real network and buy NAT from a provider.
If people think RIPE db contains too much sensitive information,
I would rather see the query results restricted somehow. For example
operators (LIRs) could have full query access, and the others
could merely receive pointers to the LIR for further information.

-- 
Vesa Ruokonen - Internet Services, Telia Finland