[db-wg] More-specific abuse-c

I support this. 

William

> On Nov 2, 2016, at 5:53 AM, Sebastian Wiesinger <sebastian at karotte.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm currently struggling with abuse-c management for a big
> organisation which wants multiple abuse contacts for different parts
> of the organisation. The org is using a lot of PI resources, some of
> them legacy. Currently they all use the same org object which is
> inextricably linked to the same abuse-c mailbox.
> 
> They have a new field of business which is mostly decoupled from the
> rest (own AS, own routers, PI space, etc.) but still uses the same org
> object.
> 
> As cumbersome as having to create a new org object  would be, I
> would've gone this road but as all of them are PI I can't change the
> org object! It is managed by the RIPE NCC. So the only solution right
> now would be to ask the RIPE NCC to change the org for all objects to
> a new one just to change the abuse-c for the resources. I would not be
> surprised if this turns out to be more complicated because of the
> end-user contract stuff but I'll need input from the NCC how they
> handle such cases.
> 
> Also having multiple org objects that have the same data (company
> name, address, phone,...) just to have a different abuse-c is
> something that irks me to no end. Now I have to update X orgs when the
> phone number or address changes. Also: redundant data in the database!
> 
> I tried to follow past discussions regarding this but it seems they
> all kind of fizzed out without any conclusion?
> 
> I would propose to fix this and add an abuse-c to resource objects
> that would be "more specific" than the org abuse-c and overrides it.
> If there are other ideas please don't hesitate to state them but to me
> it seems like a low-cost solution to this mess.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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