While I fully understand RIPE NCC' willingness reduce the administrative burden on something that's supposed to be deprecated, we all know that the scarcity will introduce new challenges against fraudulent use of address space. If not with a fully documented assignments' database, we would loose a tool to mitigate abuse.

I don't think we would miss a tool against abuse after the policy change. LIRs would be still obligated by the Terms and Conditions as also Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE Database policy, to fill in enough information for sufficient contact handling and an abuse contact. Just to be sure this is extra specified in the new address policy that there needs to be enough good information to have sufficient abuse handling.

I'd like to postpone this proposal until we get reports on clear cases and arguments to alleviate the administrative burden and cleanse the database, if any stands. The current policy being not uphold to the best standards doesn't seem to me as a meaningful reason to lighten what _should_ be our responsibility.

Yeah, you can see it in the way that LIRs are not following the best standards or you can see it in the way that best standards are not suitable for every LIR. Personally, I think most of the LIRs don’t follow it, is because of that the best standards are not suitable for them.