[db-wg] abuse-c

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote:

> |>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.
> 
> I did look at the IRT object, but it looked far far more complex than
> the simple requirement of "who do I email abuse to for an IP address",
> which is what the "remarks" fields ina lot of inetnum objects are
> providing.

Ditto.  I haven't bothered with an irt object either.  That is also why
there are only 40 irt objects in the RIPE DB.

-Hank

> 
> Indeed, I am somewhat concerned by the "Creation procedure" which looks
> overly complex and a manual process.