[db-wg] irt object useless

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:20:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 23, Shane Kerr <shane at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> > 1. Perform a lookup that works the same as "-c" today, and if it would
> > return some INETNUM objects, then finish (returning IRT objects as today)
> I think that returning by default only the top level object would be a
> bad idea. Contact information are already hidden by the abuse-mailbox
> attribute in the IRT record, so this would not make things simpler for
> users looking for an abuse desk contact and would be annoying for
> everybody else.

It doesn't return the top-level object, it returns the most specific
inetnum together with the irt object specified in the most specific
inetnum with an irt object. To be honest exactly what you expect.
> 
> If you really want to help users to quickly find a good contact then
> please add in a prominent place on www.ripe.net a form like
> http://www.cert.pl/cgi-bin/ipdig.pl, which automatically looks for a
> the best possible abuse contact and presents only that.
> This is trivial to implement and would serve the needs of most of the
> whois web interface users.

I am not against it, but getting users to use something else will not solve
the problem. We always need 'whois -h whois.ripe.net ip-number' returns
the wanted information.

Regards,

Andre Koopal
MCI