admin-c in inetnum

>Please let us know your thoughts on this, we would especially like to 
>hear how these fields are used in real-life. Have you ever had the need 
>to contact the admin-c? Is it usefull for that person to be on-site or 
>not?

I have several times had to contact admin-c people, and generally
found that more often than not they had no idea where I had gotten
their name from and what they had to do with it.

In one case the phone number listed was the "secret emergency mobile
phone" of the CEO for a $1B multinational company, but he was very
polite about it :-)

I generally assume that the admin-c would be able to kick the tech-c
around if need be.  I also generally assume that issues of legal
and/or political substance belongs with the admin-c rather than
the tech-c.

I've had a couple of cases where a tech-c was way out of bounds
(hacking, mail-bombing etc etc), and complaining to the tech-c is
unlikely to work in such cases, in both cases the admin-c handled
the case.

It would be nice if the admin-c represented a management capability
(in the legal sense of the concept) for the org/company.

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