Re: [db-wg] New RIPE Whois Database Manual

[Philippe Bourcier <]

Re,

> > > 2 - "e-mail" field of the IRT object
> Those morons will just add -B to their scripts.
So true...

>> 3 - "abuse-mailbox" field of the IRT object
>> Why would an IRT object specify an abuse-mailbox, while there's=20
>> 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.

Is it really impossible to recognize that this is an error and that 
the IRT e-mail field should be switched to "not-hidden" (and I'm sure 
all IRTs agree on this one) ?

If "-c" flag is merged with the "classic output", then the scripts 
that catch every email in the RIPE whois will catch the IRT one, 
which is in fact what everybody wants...

Another solution is to ask all the IRT to add an abuse-mailbox field, 
but I wonder how you are going to explain to them why...


Sincerely,
Philippe Bourcier