[DBWG] Abuse contacts (?)

[Frank Habicht]

Hi Ronald,

There's an "mnt-irt" attribute to the IP block and ASN objects.
It's optional in all of those; should point to an "irt" object.

This is how resource owners can add abuse contact information.
This is currently voluntary.

But I'd say that staff has in previous meeting presentations advised to
make use of this.

There is a policy proposal in the PDWG (since August 2018) to make an
abuse contact (through different DB mechanism) mandatory. This proposal
has faced some serious opposition.
https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2018-gen-001-d7

There is also an alternate proposal
https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2020-gen-005-d1
since Oct 2020.

Hope this helps.

Frank


[1]
whois -h whois.afrinic.net -- -v aut-num
whois -h whois.afrinic.net -- -v inetnum
whois -h whois.afrinic.net -- -v inet6num

mnt-irt

   May appear in an inetnum, inet6num or aut-num object. It points to an
   irt object representing a Computer Security Incident Response Team
   (CSIRT) that handles security incidents for the address space
   specified by the object.

     An irt name is made up of letters, digits, the character
     underscore "_", and the character hyphen "-"; it must start
     with "irt-", and the last character of a name must be a
     letter or a digit.



On 02/09/2021 02:26, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> Just a question...

> 

> What is the history regarding abuse contact email addresses within the

> AFRINIC region, as related to both IP blocks and ASNs?

> 

> I'm guessing that this topic has been discussed in the past, but perhaps

> some kind person could give me a short summary of those past discussions.

> 

> Other RIRs have gone to some lengths to try to get resource holders to

> register abuse addresses for their IP blocks and ASNs, in some cases

> even mandating that.  Has the AFRINIC region considered such a mandate?

> 

> 

> Regards,

> rfg

> 

> 

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