[15799] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic hosage (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sat Mar 21 20:44:24 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:32:36 -0600
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <13588.15424.198351.550626@rip.psg.com>; from Randy Bush on Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 02:18:43PM -0800
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 02:18:43PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> I think that this is a really important issue. Thanks for bringing it
> up.
>
> > Who should have access to whois contact information and its misuse.
>
> I put my data in there for use by folk with net ops problems. My
> understanding is this is the purpose for which whois data have always
> been given.
>
> randy
I don't see how you can possibly cut this off.
I hate the people who abuse this data too. One way to cut it down is to
accept only direct matches (ie: no more "wildcarding").
This also makes the database search engine incredibly simple and fast, as
opposed to complicated and slow.
Finally, it probably solves 90% of the abuse issues.
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