[arin-discuss] The joy of SWIPping

[John Osmon]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:58:02PM +0000, 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?

I'd support such an idea.  It sounds like an appropriate service for
an RIR.  It seems to fit well with the idea of stewardship and all
that...