[db-wg] Action item 47.2: Proposal for Adding Abuse Contact

Hi all,

On 2004-04-06 17:23:53 +0100, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
[...]
> 
> Three things are needed:
> 
>   - The inetnum:, inet6num:, person:, role: and mntner: objects are

mntner objects are specifically for authorisation/authentication
purposes in the whois database.  I would not put "abuse-mailbox:" 
into mntner objects, as this is irrelevant to mntner object's
purpose. Let's keep the functions of object types clean and distinct.

For "inetnum:"s and "inet6num:"s, would it make sense to
put "abuse-c:" which will reference to a person/role object
by NIC handle, thus removing the need to bulk-update the
inet(6)num objects when the abuse mailbox changes?

Also, it might make sense to add "abuse-mailbox:" into the
new organisation object, that will be put into production soon.

[...]
> 
> 	abuse-mailbox-attribute =
>     		"abuse-mailbox:"
> 		[ hint-string ]
> 		RFC-2822-addr-spec
> 		[ RFC-2622-comment ]

We have RPSL-comments already (anything after a hash '#').  Would it
make sense to use it rather than RFC-2622-comment?

My 2 cents,
-engin

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Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department