a few matters about security and consistency

In message <4.3.2.7.2.20000706142134.00d02a80 at localhost.ripe.net>, Daniel Karre
nberg writes:
>At 01:07 PM 7/6/00, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>>I think we need a NANOG more than a CERT.
>
>I thought we had RIPE for that. What does NANOG do that you need and
>RIPE does not do? A mailing list with a high S/N ratio ?
>
>Seriously: RIPE or the RIPE NCC should be doing what you need.
>Tell us.

I think the main issues facing us are DoS attacks, portscans and
outages, so I think a mailing list dedicated to abnormal operational
issues would be a good idea.  It will require a concensus about
the exact charter but that can probably be found.

It would also be nice if we had a field in the database which made
it possible to lookup the email+phone of the person to contact
for cert/abuse issues by IP number.  As it is now the database
is less useful than simply mailing abuse at domain, root at domain and 
cert at domain.

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