Michael Holzt wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:38:12PM +0200, Thorsten Schreiner wrote:
I think they want to become a BIG player... but actually can't right
I cannot understand why the DENIC doesn't help funding with one central ripe database instead of setting up a own system. The usability and work of the ripe database was the best database ever, with automated robot for updates within minutes and a very good maintainer scheme.
That ones easy, it should never have been used for this info RIPE is the rIPe repository not the domains authority. The only domains that are in there are the reverse domains for very good reasons. The RIPE DB was seen as an easy route to a publicly accessable system with minimum effort, the fact these domains are now going away will take the strain off a system which was never designed to for this use and so give the RIPE community back the level of response from the servers/systems the community funded and frankly deserve. Regards Stephen Burley UUNET EMEA Hostmaster
I just got response from the denic regarding my questions about future updates to handles. As it seems the change of Handles will now only be 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.
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).
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.
Why has this mess had to happen?
-- Mit freundlichen Gr|_en / with kind regards
Michael Holzt