We always used to put full customer details in RIPE for AS6765 and AS5378. I never had any issues or queries from anybody, they were just told that this is how it is done.
-- Leigh Porter Steven Champeon wrote: > on Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:47:45AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > >> Up until recently, we were only providing the RIR database with >> information about our larger allocations /24 or larger. We have >> noticed however that many anti-spam organizations such as Spamhaus, >> and Fiveten will use the lack of information regarding an IP >> allocation as a blank check to blacklist entire /24s when they are >> really targeting a single /30 or a /29. >> > > It's not just Spamhaus. How do you expect *anyone* to know whether an > abusive customer of yours has a /29 or a /18 unless you *tell us* in > rwhois? We happily block large swaths of the network due to failure > on the providers' parts to adequately describe the allocation. rDNS > scans and guesswork are fine, but it's much better if we can count on > the providers' actual assignments as published in rwhois and block the > smaller allocations instead. > > >> Is there some way that we can 'proxy' the information so that it >> simply states that the /29 has been allocated to a customer but it >> doesn't provide their contact information? >> > > Why on earth would you want to do that? In a world where 90%+ of our > inbound mail traffic is abuse, I think accountability trumps privacy. > > Anyone using those stupid cloaked whois listings is automatic fodder for > the filters here. Your right to access my resources ends when you deny > me the ability to identify you if I so choose, on evidence of ill > intent. > >