[db-wg] Options for extending "abuse-c:"

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:26:59PM +0200, Denis Walker wrote:

Dear Denis

>> What you want is to hide away the whole RIPE database and provide a point 
>> and click interface which only dispenses those morsels of information you 
>> think people should have?
>
> This is definitely not what I want, nor is it what I said. But it does no 
> harm to occasionally ask questions of this 15 year old design and see if it 
> still works "for everyone". In terms of hiding data away, it was agreed to 
> hide the MD5 hash for security reasons. Let me ask you a question....does 
> it benefit you, or me or the public that everyone can see your MNTNER 
> object? What data exists in your MNTNER that I need to know? Do I need to 
> know who, in your organisation, receives notifications of failed updates 
> because of authorisation failures? Do I need to know how you have 
> partitioned the management of your resources within your organisation?

At this point of time it helps me that some MNTNERs are visible to the
public. Unfortunately admin-c and/or tech-c of MNTNERs are/were used by
https://stat.ripe.net/special/abuse as a last resort of finding abuse
contact. I have pointed that already both to the RIPE NCC staff members
and on one of the RIPE mailing lists.

Piotr

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