[anti-abuse-wg] [db-wg] objection to RIPE policy proposal 2016-01

> No.  It needs to contain accurate records of who has been delegated
> responsibility for that (admin-c / org).
> 
> abuse-c is a way to ease finding the *right* contacts instead of always
> having to write paper mail to the company CEO - and that makes sense,
> but it's a convenience to operators (as is tech-c), and in no means
> required for the function as registry.
> 
> Which might conincide with the fact that the paperwork you sign when
> opening a LIR has no field for abuse-c...

bingo

i suspect this may derive from the ncc mixing the registration data with
the irr data in a single whois hell.  newer folk seem to think they are
the same.

randy