WHOIS output after DB migration

[ginny listman]

It was agreed upon at the Member Meeting that the Administrative POC not
be displayed in WHOIS.  However, there was some debate about whether or
not the Technical POC be displayed.  Once the minutes from the meeting 
have been posted, I will be drafting a post to get a broader consensus on
these and other issues.

FYI, the original proposal display the Admin contact with the Org only,
never for any resources.  Also, my impression from the meeting was that
only Registration Services have access to the Admin contact, for fear
that spammers do have a clue. This is a functionality that Engineering can
put in place.

Ginny

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Dawn Martin wrote:

> 
> I think that we should be allowed to have the POC information that our
> company wants associated with the WHOIS output for our organization.
> There was a great deal of talk about this at the meeting, and I agree
> that we have to have some contact information, but instead of the
> required contacts being the Admin and Tech I would like it to be the
> NOC and Abuse.
> 
> People brought up different points of view, and it seems that we could
> be more flexible and as long as at least one POC was listed in the
> WHOIS
> output we can be happy.  I would not have a problem with my name being
> associated with a more specific type of WHOIS search:
> 
> Something like
> 
> whois -h whois.arin.net admin-uu
> 
> but it would not just come up with every registration associated with
> UUNet. This would allow people with a clew to know how to reach
> someone
> who is responsible for the block but maybe keep out some of the folks
> that are just looking to complain about SPAM being sent from a
> customer
> of a customer, of a customer.....
> 
> -Dawn Martin
> 
> 
> >
> > I think that we (ARIN staff & membership) need to recognize that the
> > folks that attend the ARIN meetings and are active on the mailing
> > lists are not the right audience to address changes that will effect
> the
> > templates and even the WHOIS output changes that are being proposed.
> >
> > Why can we only have one Admin POC per Org? Can this be a role
> account?
> 
> The purpose of a single Admin is to name a single top authority for
> the
> Org. We strongly recommend that this be a person.  My recommendation
> would
> be to have an individual with his/her personal email address, and a
> secondary email address that is a role account.  This would satisfy
> ARIN's
> request of having an individual, and allow you the flexiblity of
> multiple
> people filling in the Admin role.
> 
> > I still don't necessarily want the role account information shown
> > in the WHOIS output.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure I understand your request.  There needs to be some POC
> information, whether it be Abuse, Tech or Admin, in WHOIS for it to be
> used as a troubleshooting tool.
> 
> > Dawn Martin
> > WorldCom IP Planning Analyst
> > dawn.martin at wcom.com
> > (703)886-4746
> >
> 
> Ginny Listman
> Director of Engineering
> ARIN
>