Well, I, and many other people on NANOG where this has been discussed over the last several weeks would tend to disagree with you. While your answer certainly reflects the current state of the database, it appears that you may not have understood the intent of the message. I am suggesting that it may be time to consider the addition of those fields as a change. I wanted to solicit input from InterNIC and ARIN, as well as NANOG. At this point, I will probably attempt to put it through the RFC process. The idea seemed to have substantial support from the community. There were some voices of dissent, but most of them revolved around the fact that it didn't solve all the problems or didn't solve certain problems it wasn't intended to solve. There was one voice opposed on the basis that all contact information for domains should be private, but this opinion doesn't appear to be widely represented among the community. Owen

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Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc., InterNIC Registration Services.

Please be advised, unfortunately three contacts are all that needed.

Best Regards, Ed r Network Solutions, Inc.

World Wide Web: http://rs.internic.net E-mail: hostmaster@internic.net Phone: 703-742-4777(Monday-Friday 7:00am to 9:00pm Eastern Time) Billing Fax: 703-318-9125 Regular Fax: 703-742-9552(For Modification & Delete Authorization) Postal: Network Solutions, Inc. ATTN: InterNIC 505 Huntmar Park Drive Herndon, VA 20170 Tax ID #: 52-1146119 crg 11/02/98 nsi_rp112 ==========================================================================

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We already have Admin, Tech, and Billing. Would it be possible to consider the addition of an Abuse contact in whois?

Owen