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Doesn't this invite mingling of allegedly privacy-relevant
data and
abuse contact information?
Hello Florian,
One of the reasons that it is only tied to the "role" object
and not the "person" object is to avoid those issues. A role
object is not designed to hold personal information, it is a
representation of a unit in an organisation. The
"abuse-mailbox:" attribute is also supposed to represent the
generic email address of the contact point for the abuse
handling entity within an organisation, not a real person. We
will place clarifying notifications about this when users enter
the data.
None of the objects in the chain, "inetnum/inet6num/aut-num",
"organisation" and "role" are provisioned as, or designed to be
private data holders.
As a user of the RIPE database for reporting SPAM, I really don't
need any of the associated personal information behind the 'abuse
address'.