* Edward Shryane via db-wg <[email protected]> [2019-05-27 11:43]:
> Dear Working Group,
> 
> as mentioned at last week's DB-WG meeting, I'd like to propose extending 
> authenticating references to other objects.
> 
> Currently, only references to organisation objects can be protected with the 
> mnt-ref attribute.
> 
> However, we could extend this protection to other types of objects:
> 
> - Abuse-c role
> - Technical contact, admin contact, zone contact etc. (person/role)
> - Organisation maintainer(s)
> 
> This would prevent unauthorised references to an organisation's objects (e.g. 
> to impersonate a third party or mis-direct abuse email).

Sounds good, on the premise that this is done to the generic object
type and not dependent on the usage of them.

Meaning that if I put mnt-ref on a person/role you cannot reference it
*anywhere* unless your maintainer is listed in mnt-ref. Same for
maintainers.


Regards


Sebastian

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