[db-wg] Proposed changes for abuse

On 2005-02-23 08:52:07 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 
> >There is currently a "trouble:" attribute in ROLE objects, which
> >contains free text.  We will update ROLE objects, so that any ROLE
> >object that has a "trouble:" attribute that is an e-mail address as
> >defined in RFC 2822, will be copied to the "abuse-mailbox:" attribute.
> >Any other "trouble:" attributes will be converted to "remarks:".
> 
> Last week I asked the following and haven't heard any comments about it:
> 
> !Then shouldn't the 'trouble:' attribute be marked as deprecated?
> 
> Perhaps I wasn't clear.  If the proposal is to change all current trouble 
> attributes to either remarks or abuse-mailbox, then in the future, if we 
> don't deprecate the trouble attribute, anyone can add a new role object 
> with a trouble attribute, and it *won't* be converted.
> 
> So shouldn't trouble be deprecated?

I agree it should be deprecated.  It is free-text and its semantics is not
very clear, which makes it not very different than "remarks:" attribute.
-engin

> 
> -Hank

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Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department