[db-wg] abuse-c: proposal

Hendrik T Voelker wrote:
> On 29.01.2004 at 13:48, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 29.01 12:42, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
>>
>>>    attribute "abuse-c:".  The value of the attribute is a nic-handle:
>>
>>I don't see any reason why abuse-c: should refer to person: or role:
>>object. Simple email address(es) would be imho just enough...
> 
> 
> I would say it will be even a better solution to have only the mailadress
> there and no person object.
> 
> As the discussion has shown, "people" do not want to dig for another object.
> All they want is that damn address to complain to.

Problem is imho that a simple mail-address would only scale downwards 
[i.e. for those with few netblocks]. From the discussion it seems that 
irt only scales upwards [i.e. for the ones with many netblocks who are 
willing to understand the system without a priori saying 'it's too 
complicated]

Nowing that admin-c and tech-c seems to scale over the whole spectrum, 
it seems the most natural implementation to have abuse-c reference a 
(enhanced) person/role too.

This is the only way that I could see that is
.) Making it simple for the small database-users
.) Incorporating _all_ the features of irt for those who need them
    [it is imho important not to have 2,3,4... pointers for the same
     problem-space]
.) The structure would waguely look like what arin returns (for the
    people this would have the advantage of only haveing to understand
    one structure)

lG uk
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