[AfriNIC-rpd] abuse contact information in whois database (AFPUB-2010-GEN-002)

[Leo Vegoda]

On 16 Jun 2010, at 7:00, Owen DeLong wrote:

[the ability to have an abuse report address and a personal address on one object]

> Frankly, however, I don't think that will work as well as some people hope
> because I have limited faith in the automated reporting systems following
> the requested convention. Someone will think that the personal response
> box is more responsive than the automatic reporting box and decide that
> their need for response to automated reports outweighs the providers
> need to sort things into different boxes. Others will simply report to both.

This is indeed my experience. I see the abuse reports people send about address space assigned for special purposes in RFCs, such as private address space. I find that a large proportion of reports are copied to more than six addresses. I don't see any value in reports shotgunned to so many people.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda