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[db-wg] RIPE abuse finder

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Peter Koch pk at DENIC.DE
Tue Mar 19 09:08:14 CET 2013

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:25:08AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

> But I do not accept implied responsibility by ill-designed tools trawling
> along all possible cross-connects in the database to be able to return
> "something", instead of having to answer "we're sorry we could not find
> an abuse contact".

I agree with Gert. The tool's logic is flawed and actually detrimental
to the data quality of the RIPE DB since it provides an incentive to
create duplicate person entries.  A "maintainer" is responsible for
the database object, not for the entity (or person) referenced by it.

-Peter

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