Now you seem to confuse LIR and RIR?
Urk. Yes, you are of course correct; I managed to get LIR and RIR switched around in my head when writing that, making most of it nonsense.
I agree that a LIR's contact data should always be up-to-date, and actually enabling people to contact "someone" who can "make things stop".
Well, "can" != "will", and therein lies a large part of the problem. Try to get anything done about the spammers hosted by Chinanet, for example.
Unfortunately, not even *this* is currently in place - and IMHO that's a much worse problem than "having end-user data in there or not".
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