[db-wg] abuse-c

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 12, John Green <j.green at ukerna.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>  >I can't see anything "above" which explains why the creation purpose 
>  >should be complicated.
> It's complicated if you want to use TI. When I wanted to create an IRT
> object I just asked RIPE to authorize it, and it was done quickly and
> with no pain.
> Currently I see no reason to use TI.

TI is an organisation that verifies the information, so that it can be 
*trusted*. For ordinary users it may be to hard to understand this and 
how to make sure it all correct. For IRT among eachother it may be 
important.

> BTW, what about returning the IRT record by default for inetnum queries?
> This would let more people know about it and if decorated with big ASCII
> art could partially solve the problem of lusers writing to every email
> address they find in the answer.

Well, *that* is a good idea!

Regards,

Menno Pieters

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