[db-wg] abuse-c: proposal

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:05:58AM +0100, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote:
> MarcoH wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote:
> >
> >>>'remarks: complaints to abuse@' also seem to scale to >10% of the inetnum
> >>>objects.
> >>
> >>from am management level it seems so. But given the fact we are 
> >>discussing it, it does not scale for the tool-writers.
> >>
> >>if i am wring, what is the discussion about?
> >
> >The fact remarks is a generic name and the field is freeform
> 
> and therefore it does not scale? right?

Looking at the numbers this obvious scaling issue doesn't hold people back
to put it in. However it does create problems for people looking for
information, especially the email address from the abuse desk responsible
for that block.

It scales on the LIR part, although there are more ways to do it, which
are easier to maintain. Using a generic name and freeform content doesn't
exactly help people to find the correct information exept when they
actually read the complete whois output.

And to repeat one of my sidenotes from the presentation, using <> to
enclose the email address breaks a lot of webbased whois tools.

Grtx,

MarcoH