Hello Florian,

One of the reasons that it is only tied to the "role" object and not the "person" object is to avoid those issues. A role object is not designed to hold personal information, it is a representation of a unit in an organisation. The "abuse-mailbox:" attribute is also supposed to represent the generic email address of the contact point for the abuse handling entity within an organisation, not a real person. We will place clarifying notifications about this when users enter the data.

None of the objects in the chain, "inetnum/inet6num/aut-num", "organisation" and "role" are provisioned as, or designed to be private data holders.

Thank you for your comment,

Kaveh.

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Kaveh Ranjbar,
RIPE NCC Database Group Manager