[db-wg] New RIPE Whois Database Manual

On Oct 22, Philippe Bourcier <philippe at cyberabuse.org> wrote:

> 1 - The "-c" flag...
> From the manual : "Sometimes, no inet(6)num object is found in the 
> hierarchy containing a reference to an irt object. In this the query 
> will return no objects."
> Do you really think anyone is going to implement it if it does "one 
> more query for nothing (ie: empty result)" ... in most cases ?
> It should return the "classic" (ie: without -c (but still processing 
> other flags)) result if nothing is found...
There is a consensus in the working group to make all queries return the
relevant IRT records by default, so it's not clear what will happen to
the -c flag.
I'm waiting for RIPE staff to comment on when it will be possible to
implement the changes discussed.
(Also, was this discussed at the last meeting?)

> 2 - "e-mail" field of the IRT object
> Why would you want to hide the "e-mail" field of the IRT object by 
> default (forcing the use of -B to get it) ?
Because of morons writing scripts which send mail to every address they
see.

> 3 - "abuse-mailbox" field of the IRT object
> Why would an IRT object specify an abuse-mailbox, while there's 
> already an e-mail field that is mandatory ?
> An IRT's e-mail address is an abuse-mailbox by definition, isn't it ?
Just use it instead of the email attribute, if it exists.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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