[AfriNIC-rpd] Staff Comments & Implementation Impact Analysis for Policy - Abuse Contact Information in the AfriNIC Service Region (AFPUB-2010-GEN-006)

[Owen DeLong]

On Jan 23, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Tobias Knecht wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> I don't understand why these organizations can't make use of the
>> bulk whois policy and download the database instead of loading up
>> the RIR servers with their queries if the queries are so frequent and
>> so numerous as to be a problem.
> 
> There are 8477 email fields in the Bulk Data and 8411 are filtered
> 
>     e-mail:       # Filtered
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tobias
> 
> -- 
> abusix.org
> 

Then the correct solution is to put in policy to get unfiltered bulk whois records
for your purposes rather than to force the RIRs to support your query loads.

Owen