[db-wg] Options for extending "abuse-c:"

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:52:59PM +0200, Denis Walker wrote:

Dear Denis

>> I find this suggestion clumsy. It adds hard to parse extraneous 
>> information to simple objects. The organization object for a very large 
>> organization would become unmanageable and unintelligible quickly.
>
> Who do you believe is going to parse this object for this information? The 

Users. ;-)

> RIPE NCC already has an Abuse Finder tool which can be accessed directly or

RIPE NCC already has two Abuse Contact Finders, which already misleads
the users. :| And yes, I know that one of them will be obsoleted.

> via RIPEstat. As I said in the last paragraph of my article, people should 
> start to move away from the old fashioned idea of digging directly into the 
> RIPE Database themselves to find data, parse it and interpret it. If you 
> need information the RIPE NCC will provide web tools and API calls to 
> supply that information. We will  do all the digging, parsing and 
> interpretation for you.

And sadly speaking, what I understand here, between the lines, is let's
abandon whois in some point of time. I hope I misunderstood you.

Piotr

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