[arin-discuss] The joy of SWIPping

[jlewis at atlantic.net]

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Paul Vixie wrote:

>> As far as contacing customers via whois lookup, is there some reason the
>> ISP can't act as an agent for the customer?  This is sort of like the
>> various domain whois privacy services...but not nearly as slimely IMO.
>
> as far as that goes, is there general support here for the idea of the RIRs
> running mail forwarders for well-formatted non-robotic abuse complaints that
> can be forwarded to the registered operator of the netblock, without exposing
> the operator's internal ticket system e-mail address via whois?

Are you suggesting that the RIRs act as front-end filters/forwarders for 
member org abuse@'s?  That seems to me to be way out of the scope of the 
current responsibilities of RIRs, and I can see it being a scaling 
nightmare for them.  Are we looking for ways for ARIN to expand (hire more 
staff) and burn more money (buy, house, operate clusters of mail servers)?

Did you maybe mean LIRs?

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