RDAP databases for assigned IP numbers are maintained by five [[Regional Internet registry|Regionalregional Internet registries]]. [[American Registry for Internet Numbers|ARIN]] maintains a bootstrap database.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/rdap/rdap.pdf |title=RDAP at ARIN |date=September 17, 2019 |access-date=June 8, 2020 |archive-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128172749/https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/rdap/rdap.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Thanks to the standard document format, tasks such as, for example, getting the abuse team address of a given IP number can be accomplished in a fully automated manner.<ref>{{cite web |title=abuserdap |url=https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?110246 |access-date=2020-06-08 |archive-date=2022-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225032817/https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?110246 |url-status=live }}</ref>
