[db-wg] Blocking Access to Personal Data Objects in the RIPE Database

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 01:46:30PM +0200, Janos Zsako wrote:

Dear Janos, Denis and All

> In short, yes, I support the proposal.
>
> My slightly modified suggestion is:
>
> When a given IP address, due to the large number of personal data queries
> reaches the limit where the NCC would now deny access to any objects, I think
> it would make sense to fully limit the access to personal data (i.e deny
> access to it), however, limit the access to other data as if they had been
> using the --no-personal flag so far.
>
> As long as there is no other kind of limitations than the one based on
> the number of personal data retrieved[*], this boils down to the suggestion below.
> If at some point other limitations are put in place, like number of queries
> within a time frame (to mitigate DoS attacks), then this would mean that they
> are still eligible for limitation if their query rate is too high (this time
> not due to the personal data involved).

I strongly support this idea.

Piotr

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