[db-wg] abuse-c

TAYON, Julien wrote:
> John Green <mailto:j.green at ukerna.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have never understood what this gives you.  If "Evil Company" wants
>>to misdirect abuse reports (why?) they can circumvent this by making
>>a fake IRT object with IRT XYZ as the contact email address.
>>
> 
> 
> If people circumvent this they are either evil or incompetent which is
> alreday a strong hint to be suspicious.

Moreover the process of creating an IRT object is controlled by the 
RIPE-NCC, because it is like creating a maintainer object, or by 
organisations like TI that verify all data provided by the IRT, before 
inserting it in the RIPE database.

Regards,

Menno Pieters

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