Hi Ulf

I see this as more of an oversight than a problem. But I will add it to the problem statement so it doesn't get overlooked again. As you say it is probably quite easy to fix but we will let the RIPE NCC comment on that when we get to the stage of discussing solutions.

btw...'pn' is the short form for 'person', so it is the implementation of the 'person' keyword that needs fixing.

cheers

denis

ripedenis@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

After the introduction of "abuse-c", the "abuse-mailbox:" attribute in the PERSON, MNTNER, ORGANISATION and IRT objects was intended to be deprecated. This cleanup was never done and the old data causes confusion to users manually searching the database. 

Add:
After the introduction of "abuse-c", the "pn" shortcut did not get
updated.

Explanation:

pn is a shortcut for "admin-c,tech-c,zone-c,author" in inverse queries.

To find all references blocking the deletion of a person or role
object I used to be able to query

whois -r -i pn uk41-ripe

Now I have to use

whois -r -i abuse-c,pn uk41-ripe

which is synonymous to

whois -r -i abuse-c,admin-c,tech-c,zone-c,author uk41-ripe

This should be easily fixable.

Regards,