[db-wg] abuse-c: proposal

Hi,

>> 2. Protection against 'illegal' referecing. (Meaning "Hey UCD has a nice
>>    role for abuse, i reference this role in my inetnums as well") There
>>    we had a discussion in the context of the org object, putting a
>>    generalized machinery (mnt-ref, ref-nfy) in place. IMHO this _should_
>>    be added (optional) to role/person anyway.
> 
> 
> Do we need a new machinery for this?  If a role or person object acquires
> a new inverse-key relationship, I would find it reasonable to alert the
> 'mnt-by:' and 'notify:' targets as a matter of course.  I don't see the
> value in defining new attributes just to cover this.

Hmm, I'd prefer the protection from that to happen instead of: Bad Guy 
does something -> You hear from it -> You have to persuade the RIPE-NCC 
to do something against it (Because you can't do it yourself, since you 
do _not_ maintain the object where the reference is in).

That machinery is not really new, since the DB-Folks are as I understood 
it Implementing that attribute-combination for the org-object as well.

And then it is optional, so if you dont want real protection, you do not 
have to use it.

lG uk
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