[db-wg] RIPE abuse finder

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:06:33PM +0100, Denis Walker wrote:
> There is still a link to NETASSIST-MNT:
> 
> inetnum:        31.133.32.0 - 31.133.63.255
> org:            ORG-FTVM1-RIPE
> 
> organisation:   ORG-FTVM1-RIPE
> admin-c:        TV1866-RIPE
> 
> person:         Trubnikov Valeriy
> nic-hdl:        TV1866-RIPE
> mnt-by:         NETASSIST-MNT
> 
> This nicely highlights the main problem with the legacy abuse contact 
> management. It relies on this spaghetti of relationships between many 
> objects in the database.

And the over-eagerness of the current abuse finder implementation - I've
been there as well, and the usefulness of walking the inetnum -> person ->
mnt-by -> ... chain can be seriously doubted.

I've said before that I would really prefer if you didn't do that, because
that way, LIRs that happen to have added a person: object at some point
in the past now happen to get abuse complaints for networks where they
really cannot do anything, except "remove the mnt-by:" - and I really 
doubt there are cases where this is more useful than just returning
"uh, we did not find anything".  

Except it looks "better", of course, to return something for a higher
percentage of queries.  Sufficiently pointy-haired metrics assumed.

Gert Doering
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