[AfriNIC-rpd] Re: Return of Policy Proposal RPD Mailinglist: Abuse Contact Information in the AfriNIC Service Region

[Tobias Knecht]

Hi,

> That's fine by me, but, please keep in mind the following principle:
> 
> Duplication of the same data in databases is bad because it leads to loss
> of synchronization of that data and poor maintenance practices.

If the data would be there, we would not have to talk about the
implementation of such. The data, a dedicated abuse contact information
is not existent in the whois database at the moment. There are no abuse
addresses in the whois database.

We and several other reporting organizations have problems to deliver
spam complaints to these contacts, because they use spam filters. And it
is absolutely okay to use spamfilters on personal accounts. And there
are only personal accounts, because there is no abuse@ object, were
people can add a dedicated abuse@ address which for example is not using
a spamfilter. There are no non personal objects available to use and do
the right thing. And start using an abuse-c is not making it better. You
are allowing the members to use personal objects and filter the
complaints with a spamfilter.

Personal Objects are completely different than the IRT Object. That's
why RIPE is using them and that's why APNIC decided to use it. Because
they are tailor made.


> It is my belief that the IRT object would result in this type of duplication
> and loss of synchronization regardless of the front-end implementation.
> If not immediately (assuming a perfect initial implementation of the
> front-end), then, likely in the longer term as the synchronization
> requirement gets forgotten in some future update to the front-end.

The point is, that we are not bringing up all our policy proposals at
once, so we would like to go step by step. And the problem you are
mentioning is not a problem of having a dedicated abuse contact object,
it's more a problem of data accuracy and people forgetting about
updating their objects.

Just have a look at this:
http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-084

This would be the next step after the abuse contact object.

Thanks,

Tobias

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abusix.org








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