Need some opinions on what data to list
Kris Deugau
kdeugau at vianet.ca
Tue Feb 14 11:20:08 EST 2006
I work for a growing ISP. We're sloooowwwwwwly getting our IP space
assignments organized and tracked; we have had a pretty much up-to-date
database for our internal use for a while now, and I've got a partial
export to a local rWHOIS server that's been running without apparent
issues for some time.
However, we'd like to make this a fully-live rWHOIS server, and we need
to know what netblocks we should make public, and what to keep hidden in
some way.
Currently, the export process I have running pushes out all customer
netblocks (whether real or just a set of contiguous IPs aligned along
netblock divisions from a PPP pool - business and residential are
separate pools) down to /30. According to any documentation I've seen
for SWIP, the smallest netblock that should usually be listed is /29.
Does this still apply for rWHOIS? (I haven't seen any indication of
what size netblocks should or should not be listed anywhere.) We've got
the better part of an aggregate /21 used by /30 netblocks.
Secondly, how do you decide what customer data to expose? For some
assignments, the customer is actively using a medium-large chunk of IP
space, and they have their own IT services and should be listed as the
tech and abuse contacts for any bad things apparently originating from
their network.
-kgd
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