On May 23, Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net> wrote:
1. Perform a lookup that works the same as "-c" today, and if it would return some INETNUM objects, then finish (returning IRT objects as today) I think that returning by default only the top level object would be a bad idea. Contact information are already hidden by the abuse-mailbox attribute in the IRT record, so this would not make things simpler for users looking for an abuse desk contact and would be annoying for everybody else.
If you really want to help users to quickly find a good contact then please add in a prominent place on www.ripe.net a form like http://www.cert.pl/cgi-bin/ipdig.pl, which automatically looks for a the best possible abuse contact and presents only that. This is trivial to implement and would serve the needs of most of the whois web interface users. -- ciao, Marco