[164683] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Fri Jul 26 21:22:33 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAFOdRH+NHnUeRKJyMtOf3+0UiQbVGmavMhGRVrcinBNHUni89A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:18:52 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Matt Hite <lists@beatmixed.com>
Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/26/13, Matt Hite <lists@beatmixed.com> wrote:
> I actually think it's important to have contact information publicly
> available. I realize this opens the door for abuse, but I've found that
> using a call screening service (Google Voice) at least provides a bit of
> shield.
Hm.. a thought does occur, that /some/ operators might be inclined
to offer more useful contact listings than they would otherwise do;
if there were an option to list some additional details under an
"enhanced" private WHOIS, as a side-by-side enhancement to the
public version; that is a WHOIS that when the asker is
authenticated with an implied promise that only vetted
individuals with a proven network engineering experience
background can see the 'additional' information, that allows them
to review the query history for their record, and possibly post a
"parameterized" contact URL whose use would be linked to the
query.
Some operators might be comfortable listing something other than their
generic support phone#, or e-mail address that is so filtered,
the critical message will probably not get to the right contact, for
at least days or weeks.
--
-JH
