[AfriNIC-rpd] Staff Comments & Implementation Impact Analysis for Policy - Abuse Contact Information in the AfriNIC Service Region (AFPUB-2010-GEN-006)

[Owen DeLong]

On Jan 18, 2011, at 3:01 PM, SM wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
> At 16:13 17-01-11, Tobias Knecht wrote:
>> I fully understand that you will have query restrictions on personal
>> data and I understand that you have query restrictions at all, but there
>> must be a much higher threshold for abuse contact information as for
>> personal data.
> 
> I doubt that having a much higher threshold would help a well known antispam organization and some CSIRTs from sending their abuse reports to the wrong abuse contact.
> 
I don't understand why these organizations can't make use of the bulk
whois policy and download the database instead of loading up the
RIR servers with their queries if the queries are so frequent and so
numerous as to be a problem.

Owen