On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
Would be the nic-hdl's in the RIPE-DB which has only a reference to an german domain object mark as "NEVER_REFD" now?
Yes, they will be marked as NEVER_REFD. We didn't change anything in the consistency project regarding to .de domain deletions. Even we did change something, since person objects will be created in RIPE whois db for a couple of months more, and since we won't have the new .de domains, our changes would be void.
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time comprehending the above.
I have one brief question which may serve to clarify this issue: Is there a good reason to keep person objects in the RIPE database when they are no longer referenced by any other object in the database? I would have thought that the answer to that would be a resounding "no", so I am a little more than puzzled by the above conversation.
Hi Havard, Since DENIC do not have a person/role database yet, we have migrated only domain objects for now. After the implementation of DENIC's person/role database, which DENIC expect to take a couple of months from now on, we will also migrate the related person/role objects to DENIC's db. Until then, we will continue to keep .de domain related person/role objects in RIPE whois database. They will also continue to create new person/role objects in our db. This may sound strange, but it is the optimal solution we could find, thinking that more than 3 million objects are involved in the migration process. We weren't able to do this in a single shut. I hope it is clear now. Best regards, Engin Gunduz RIPE NCC Database Group
- H�vard