[164775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Jul 31 22:15:40 2013
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:14:52 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20985.18076.970267.597692@world.std.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> The usual method is to insert "ringers" which would be info which
> points back at non-existant people with valid-looking contact
> information.
>=20
> If for example they called a phone number, or several, owned by ARIN
> (or a service they employed) asking for James T Kirk or Diana Prince
> then that would be a problem and should be logged.
There are some interesting non-obvious elements in the database for=20
such purposes and we do take action when they are triggered.
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
