On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Michael Holzt wrote:
possible for members of the Denic eG, so many smaller providers who aren't members, but are buying their domains from another one will have to redirect all changes to this member. I treat this as a very brain-damaged system.
No, it is not. It will greatly help with the consistency of Person objects. Several of our customers have several RIPE Handles - Just because each is mnt-by a different provider.
In the meanwhile we have Handles with the same key XYZ-RIPE, with different contents in RIPE-db and DeNIC-db (not only the missing remarks, but also phone and fax, and if someone makes changes to one of the two handles the other will keep the old data).
OBVIOUSLY since the Person handles have not yet been migrated, the person data in denic's database is not authoritive.
And then the past changes of the DeNIC to set unmaintained Handles under their own Maintainer DENIC-P is abusive usage of the ripe database in my eyes. They had no permission to change our handles and the change made no sense, as the DeNIC won't support maintainers in their own database as mentioned above.
So WHY did you NOT set your own maintainer before Denic did so? I seem to remember quite clearly that there was advanced warning of this. You do realize that a person without a maintainer can be changed by ANYBODY? This is a serious security risk and could lead to the loss of domains, etc.
Why has this mess had to happen?
Maybe because people like you don't pay attention until after the fact...? Best wishes, Nils Jeppe - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - n@work Internet Informationssysteme GmbH Tel +49 40 23880900 Spaldingstrasse 160d Fax +49 40 23880929 20097 Hamburg, Germany http://www.work.de/