Hi there,
At this point, we would like to automatically go through all the references by name which can uniquely be assigned to a person or role object and substitute them by references to their nic handles.
Later we will go through the process of fixing the non-unique references left in the database. This process requires user intervention since we can't decide who "owns" a particular set of resources. For this later stage, we will be preparing reports that we will send to all maintainers for whom we detect objects with inconsistencies and try to get them fixed. Information about this part will be sent to the lists in a few weeks.
I would suggest to send change suggestions to maintainers, or maintainers of supernets, instead of doing automatic changes. I have the feeling that some person objects may have been deleted and person objects with the same name may have been inserted, and the two people may be different. Automatically attaching objects to the wrong person instead of realizing that the person reference is broken is not really good for database consistency. Just my Rp. 10 (CHF 0.05 being the smallest coin ;-) Bernard