On 7 Oct 2013, at 15:02, Gilles Massen wrote:
In the light of the upcoming RIPE meeting I'd like to bring the problem of a single entity (organisation) wanting different abuse-c for different resources up again. The discussion starting in June (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2013-June/004079.html ) was rather open ended.
Apparently the only workable solution at this point is to create a duplicate organisation object with a different abuse-c.
Is data duplication really the solution that the WGs would like?
I'm glad you've re-opened this question, Gilles, as I just last week had occasion to update an object which had long had multiple 'abuse-c' contacts, and had to choose which one to keep. I'm in the "No" camp wrt your question above. Back in the original "abuse-c" proposal [*], http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2004-January/002489.html there was provision for multiple "abuse-c" attributes, but this was not carried over into the current specification. Would "hint strings" be a way to go, or have you something else in mind, or are you just re-opening the question? ATB /Niall [*] Disclosure: I was a co-author. /N