We need to take some action on these old NWIs. Either we move forward with them or we cancel them. It is difficult to draw a consensus on 2 comments. Can you please give us a couple of minutes of your time and let us know if this NWI-1 is needed, useful or a waste of time.
I share the view already expressed. If we need a tool, maybe the problem is somewhere else.
I support any proposal, that comes to the same result as the ripe whois database tool. It's not really hard to do correctly. #! /bin/sh getripe="whois -h whois.ripe.net --" $getripe -rL -T inetnum,inet6num "$1" | egrep '^org:' | while read ot ov; do $getripe -r -T organisation $ov | egrep '^abuse-c:' | while read at av; do $getripe -r $av | fgrep abuse-mailbox done done | tail -1 In order to fix the issue on the database side, it's necessary to prevent any occurrence of "abuse-mailbox" in all objects beside an newly created "abuse-contact" type, which is only allowed to referenced in the "abuse-c". See here for a corner case: https://lutz.donnerhacke.de/eng/Blog/Antispammers-and-Abuse-C