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

[Hannigan, Martin]

On 1/19/11 6:39 AM, "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:03 AM, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
>> Hi Owen,
>> At 16:33 18-01-11, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> According to https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2010/001107.html "the
>> email address all have value '# Filtered'".
> 
> I'm not sure if we need a "policy" for bulk whois, but a procedure,
> written by the staff might be useful (apologies if it is already
> there, and I haven't found it.

I agree.

> I'm not really feeling Tobias on this one.  Mukom's mail seemed pretty
> straightforward to me.  Abuse-c will be added as an optional attribute
> in inetnums/inet6num's and aut-num's.
> 
> All the other questions seem to be red-herrings.  Maybe I am missing
> something.


+1.


Best,

-M<