-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Paula Caslav [SMTP:paula@ripe.net] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 15. Juni 1999 10:35 An: lir-wg@ripe.net Cc: local-ir@ripe.net Betreff: admin-c in inetnum lir-wg@ripe.net wrote: Please let us know your thoughts on this, we would especially like to hear how these fields are used in real-life. Have you ever had the need to contact the admin-c? Is it usefull for that person to be on-site or not? making a fast rush through the database entries we are affected by one can see that very often a not-on-site-admin-c is common practice (hard to believe that someone living in Munich can be on-site wirh a network in Hamburg, around 800 km away). And we don#t think that this can cause any problems. The job of the admin-c (in case of emergencies) is clear: Alarming someone who knows where's the "red button". This usually will be done by phone, and it doesn't matter if the caller is next door or not. Just our 2 c smartnet Online Service rm