[db-wg] Proposal: Abuse-C as a Reference

Ulrich Kiermayr wrote:
> 
> Would for example a comment above the Returned objects be useful:

One idea that came up over conversation with Wilfried (IIRC) was to 
replace the e-mail addresses in all objects with references to contact 
objects.  This would include notification addresses and the changed lines:

notify:
mnt-nfy:
upd-to:
irt-nfy:
ref-nfy:
changed:

This might help by removing spurious e-mail addresses from the output.
Modifying Ulrich's example, we would get:

% This is the RIPE Whois server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html

inetnum:      131.130.7.32 - 131.130.7.47
mnt-irt:      IRT-UK
org:          ORG-UK1-RIPE
netname:      UK-V4
descr:        LAN Ulrich Kiermayr
country:      AT
admin-c:      UK6107-RIPE
tech-c:       UK3
abuse-c:      UK3
mnt-by:       AS760-MNT
mnt-by:       UK-MNT
status:       ASSIGNED PA
changed:      20020822 UK3
changed:      20040128
source:       RIPE

%
% Administrative Contact:

person:       Ulrich Kiermayr
address:      Vienna University
address:      Computer Center
address:      Universitaetsstrasse 7
address:      A-1010 Vienna
address:      Austria
phone:        +43 1 4277 14104
fax-no:       +43 1 4277 9140
e-mail:       Ulrich.Kiermayr at UniVie.ac.at
nic-hdl:      UK6107-RIPE
remarks:      GPG-Key: PGPKEY-A8D764D8
mnt-by:       ACONET-LIR-MNT
changed:      20010629 CP8-RIPE
changed:      20020603
changed:      20020805 UK3
source:       RIPE

%
% Technical and Abuse Contact:

person:       Ulrich Kiermayr
address:      Lacknergasse 71/23
address:      A-1180 Wien
address:      AT
phone:        +43 1 5248266
phone:        +43 664 8174818
e-mail:       Ulrich.Kiermayr at UniVie.ac.at
nic-hdl:      UK3
remarks:      GPG-Key: PGPKEY-A8D764D8
mnt-by:       UK-MNT
notify:       UK3
changed:      20020723 UK3
source:       RIPE

%
% Incident Response Team:

irt:          IRT-UK
address:      Lacknergasse 71/23
address:      A-1180 Wien
address:      AT
phone:        +43 1 5248266
phone:        +43 664 8174818
e-mail:       Ulrich.Kiermayr at UniVie.ac.at
signature:    PGPKEY-A8D764D8
encryption:   PGPKEY-A8D764D8
admin-c:      UK3
tech-c:       UK3
irt-nfy:      UK3
auth:         PGPKEY-A8D764D8
notify:       UK3
mnt-by:       UK-MNT
changed:      20020820 UK3
changed:      20030115 UK3
source:       RIPE

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In this case, we only get a single e-mail address.  Now, this would still 
not solve the case of people just searching for '@' and sending e-mail, 
but it would help the problem.

Notice that I've put the comments in separate blocks, to help people who 
parse one object at a time.  I've also swapped the order on the "changed:" 
attribute, also to ease parsing, since we will always have a date but 
maybe not always other information.

-- 
Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC