Hi all, Here are some statistics on IRT queries for January. How much usage do these IRT objects get? Some background reading on IRT objects: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/irt https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/ripe-datab... The IRT object is meant to be used by Incident Response Teams directly, and "abuse-c:" is meant for general abuse complaints. IRT objects are *not* returned by default in Whois queries. Users must either specify the -c / --irt flag on an IP lookup, or specify the IRT-* primary key. There are about 400 IRT objects in the Whois database. To reference an IRT object from an IP range, you must add an "mnt-irt" attribute (and authenticate with the IRT object). I found 12,694 references to IRT objects from inetnums, and 901 references from inet6nums. A total of 174 distinct IRT objects are referenced (leaving 226 unreferenced). Out of 2 billion Whois queries in January, I found 204,318 queries with the irt flag (or ~7k/day), and 546 queries (or about 18/day) for an IRT object using the primary key. Let me know if you have any questions or would like more details. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC