[db-wg] abuse-c

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:56:53PM +0100, Christian Rasmussen wrote:
> Why not simply add "abuse-address" as a MANDATORY attribute in the
> maintainer object, then Ripe NCC should have to check when creating a
> maintainer object that the address is valid (eg. send a mail to the address,
> Ripe NCC doesn't create the maintainer until their mail has been replied).
> 
> It would be relatively simple for all LIRs to add such an attribute to their
> maintainer object and then for Ripe NCC to check up on those objects missing
> the attribute. The whois system would of course need to be modified to show
> the abuse-address attribute when doing a whois, but I don't believe that
> would be a big problem?

I have some inetnum objects where I would like to get a seperate entry for
the abuse address, thus allowing other people (the customer) to handle the
'frontline" abuse things or at least get copied on them.

I think Daniel's proposal handles this nicely, use the abuse-address on
the inetnum or where it fails the one on the maintainer object.

I certainly don't want to create an extra maintainer the moment I want to
delegate abuse handling to another partie or direct it to a seperate
mailbox.

Grtx,

MarcoH