[db-wg] irt object useless

On May 23, Andre Koopal <andre.koopal at nld.mci.com> wrote:

> > 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.
Yes, this is what I meant, and I do not think that it is what people
expect when doing a whois query.

> > 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.
Reality check: most of the people who need this do not even know what
a command line is.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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