[rpd] Decisions ... Abuse contact

[Patrick Okui]

Hi Lamiaa,

Actually you did not explain your position. It helps to be precise with 
what you mean.

You simply said:

_“Check accuracy of database data is part of afrinic operational 
routing and has no need to be put in the policy. We don’t micro manage 
afrinic.”_

So I simply asked you to clarify if you imagined AFRINIC could simply 
make abuse-c mandatory without our say so or if they weren’t facing 
issues with the existing optional abuse-c.

Note that admin-c has a restriction that does not apply to any other 
contact. The requirement that the contact be resident in the AS. The 
exact roles of the different contacts is why they can have different 
restrictions.

So to be clear from your email, you agree that AFRINIC’s issue is 
legitimate and they need to be able to require members have mandatory 
abuse-c. It is not obvious that a mandatory contact is needed. This 
point is listed by the co-chairs as one of the outstanding issues. 
(point e. under the policy at 
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/011372.html )

If I understand you (correct me where I’m wrong), what you take issue 
with (in this particular email thread) is 8.5. Specifically:

_8.5 Validation of "abuse-c"/"abuse-mailbox”_

_AFRINIC will validate compliance with the items above, both when the 
"abuse-c" and/or "abuse-mailbox" attributes are created or updated, as 
well as periodically, not less than once every 6 months, and whenever 
AFRINIC sees fit._

Note that this is to address issues raised by some other people. Not to 
pick on Chloe but as a recent example she commented as recorded at 
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/011590.html

_nor does it guarantee the abuse email will be checked on a routine 
basis. Then I think it will only become a meaningless policy._

The text proposed by Jordi says AFRINIC can pick the duration and 6 
months (1/2 the billing cycle) is suggested as the max time between 
validations. In this text, AFRINIC can choose to validate weekly, or 
monthly or etc. I think the proposed text is a good compromise you can 
suggest a different timing. It just says AFRINIC can verify as often as 
they want, but anyone who reads the policy knows that any contact they 
retrieve is at most 6 months from its last validation (or less if 
AFRINIC decide to do this more often).

If this is a heavy point of contention, we can always ask staff to 
clarify what they understand from the proposed text and what they think 
about the phrasing of timelines. After all, it falls on their shoulders 
to implement.

On 3 Oct 2020, at 20:30 EAT, Lamiaa Chnayti wrote:


> Hi Patrick,

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> You are not following any logic here, and it seems like you are a very 

> confused person on your argument.

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> 1. You claimed that you want to have policy text dictated AFRINIC how 

> OFTEN they should validate contact in the whois.

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> 2. I am telling you maintaining database accuracy (in which partly 

> includes validating contact info in the database) is an operational 

> issue. It should not be put into policy text, and it should be left to 

> the staff to decide how they want to validate the contact info in the 

> whois database. That is not only abuse-c, but any other contact in the 

> DB should be reachable and accurate. We don’t need a policy for that 

> as that is Afrinic’s mandate and daily routine job.

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> And how did you arrive from the above arguments to claim I was saying 

> that the staff were lying?

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> Staff claimed they have had an increase in work load due to the lack 

> of mandatory abuse contact. Nobody is disputing that. Everyone here 

> agrees we can, and we probably should, have a mandatory abuse contact. 

> However, we should simply put it together with the other mandatory 

> contacts. There is no reason making an entire section for a simple 

> contact information. And when did I say that is a lie?

>

> Please, you are making a serious accusation about me without any 

> ground and potentially you are in breach of the code of conduct.

>

> Additionally, I did not send the letter to you in private. I simply 

> forgot to press respond to all at the bottom which is a completely 

> forgivable oversight. You are simply making too big of a noise for a 

> simple mistake.

>

> Regards,

>

> Lamiaa

>

> Le sam. 3 oct. 2020 à 11:45, Patrick Okui <pokui at psg.com> a écrit :

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>> Hi Lamiaa,

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>> Great that you cc’ed the list this time.

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>> Kindly clarify your position on the following in the email I wrote 

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>> just responded to..

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>> Are you trying to say that the AFRINIC staff is lying to the RPD list 

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>> per https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/011534.html ?

>> Particularly point d? If so please respond to Madhvi with further 

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>> AFRINIC staff only operate within the boundaries of the policies we 

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>> They can’t randomly make data mandatory that we say is optional or 

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>> On 3 Oct 2020, at 13:42 EAT, Lamiaa Chnayti wrote:

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>> Hello Patrick,

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>> Check accuracy of database data is part of afrinic operational 

>> routing and

>> has no need to be put in the policy. We don’t micro manage afrinic.

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>> Regards,

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>> Lamiaa

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>> Le sam. 3 oct. 2020 à 11:41, Patrick Okui <pokui at psg.com> a écrit :

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>>> Hi Lamiaa,

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>>> Grateful if you can cc the RPD list on your contributions.

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>>> Are you trying to say that the AFRINIC staff is lying to the RPD 

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>>> per https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/011534.html ?

>>> Particularly point d?

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>>> AFRINIC staff only operate within the boundaries of the policies we 

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>>> They can’t randomly make data mandatory that we say is optional or 

>>> vice

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>>> On 3 Oct 2020, at 13:10 EAT, Lamiaa Chnayti wrote:

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>>> Hello Patrick,

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>>> Check accuracy of database data is part of afrinic operational 

>>> routing

>>> and has no need to be put in the policy. We don’t micro manage 

>>> afrinic.

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>>> Regards,

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>>> Lamiaa

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>>> Le sam. 3 oct. 2020 à 07:49, Patrick Okui <pokui at psg.com> a écrit 

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>>>> Dear Elvis,

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>>>> I’ll address just one of your points people keep bringing up.

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>>>> On 3 Oct 2020, at 1:05 EAT, Ibeanusi Elvis wrote:

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>>>> Dear Community,

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>>>> Once more regarding this abuse contact policy or abuse-c, 

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>>>> of the lack of a clear definition of what constitutes or entails an 

>>>> abuse,

>>>> there is no guarantee that the abuse contact mail box will be 

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>>>> checked and the properly defined concept to determine if an abuse 

>>>> cases is

>>>> valid and hence, take necessary action as pointed out by @Chloe.

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>>>> Are you intentionally not reading the proposal text at

>>>> https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2018-gen-001-d6#proposal

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>>>> *8.5 Validation of "abuse-c"/"abuse-mailbox”*

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>>>> *AFRINIC will validate compliance with the items above, both when 

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>>>> "abuse-c" and/or "abuse-mailbox" attributes are created or updated, 

>>>> as well

>>>> as periodically, not less than once every 6 months, and whenever 

>>>> AFRINIC

>>>> sees fit.*

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>>>> patrick

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