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Jan Meijer
jan.meijer at surfnet.nl
Fri Jan 9 13:32:39 CET 2004
Hi, On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote: > I am new to this mailing list, so forgive me if this has been covered > before. > > It seems there is a pretty clear need for an extra field in inetnum and > inet6num records, specifically something like an abuse-c field > referencing a person record. > > A lot of inetnum records I have seen have a remarks field identifying > the abuse ocntact, but this is in an inconsistent format making it > difficult to automate in any way. It also seems that a lot of network > administrators (admin-c) do not feel they should administer their > network to remove viruses, etc, and get quite annoyed when contacted > regarding abuse. > > What would be the procedure for proposing such a new field? It's already there :). Please check http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/irt-object.html and the TF-CSIRT effort to make it easier to use this: http://www.dfn-cert.de/team/matho/irt-object/ It's not perfect but it's there. Jan -- /~\ The ASCII / Jan Meijer \ / Ribbon Campaign -- -- SURFnet bv X Against HTML / http://www.surfnet.nl/organisatie/jm/ / \ Email http://cert-nl.surfnet.nl/
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