Re: [db-wg] RIPE abuse finder

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:25:08AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

But I do not accept implied responsibility by ill-designed tools trawling along all possible cross-connects in the database to be able to return "something", instead of having to answer "we're sorry we could not find an abuse contact".

I agree with Gert. The tool's logic is flawed and actually detrimental to the data quality of the RIPE DB since it provides an incentive to create duplicate person entries. A "maintainer" is responsible for the database object, not for the entity (or person) referenced by it. -Peter