[ppml] Technical error was ( Regarding private residence... )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:19 AM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Technical error was ( Regarding private 
> residence... )
> 
> > Do you believe it is appropriate for phone companies to 
> publish phone
> > books with everyone's name and phone number and with their address?
> 
> As I said, the ARIN whois directory is NOT a phone book.
> 
> > Now - note that for ip addresses we're not talking about 
> everyone being
> > listed, it already only applies to users who get enough ip space to
> > qualify for reassignment listing and most of these are not 
> novices but
> 
> Most of them? Where is your data?
> As I said, we should only have network operators in the
> whois directory. There is no advantage to having lots of other
> records mixed in there.

Do you mean "network operator" in the NANOG sense, or in the
sense of someone who operates a network?  Listings in whois [1]
are for /29 or greater, meaning multiple hosts, i.e., a network.  
Network operators in either sense may be listed [2]; the person
responsible for resolving network issues should be listed.

> If statistical analysis is an important role for the whois
> directory then people need to speak up about it.

People did, which is why there's a bulk whois policy.

> 
> --Michael Dillon

Lee

[1] APID, as Leo would have it
[2] or not, for residences, at the discretion of the assignor