No, this is a working agreement about technical details. It is based on the community consensus that domain related information (excluding reverse delegations) should be moved from the RIPE Database to the respective ccTLD databases.
Fair enough, but community consensus must be recorded. Was this consensus achieved at RIPE 36 and we're still waiting for the relevant minutes?
Frankly, I don't see what the great fuss is about, Mike.
No great fuss, Håvard, just a request for a reminder of the original action point leading to this operational change. Andrei has now provided this.
I think this has been discussed in the CENTR arena, and if I'm not mistaken there's been developed a consensus between the RIPE NCC and the CENTR folks for the preferred way forward. The RIPE DB's primary purpose isn't to serve as a repository for domain objects and related person objects -- I have for a long time had the impression that this has been rather obvious, and that a better solution for all parties would be preferable (less work for the CC registries to maintain the RIPE DB data, tighter coupling to the underlying registry database, costs for running the system where they can be accounted for, etc. etc.)
Indeed, and this has been raised in the db-wg many times in the past, even in pre-CENTR days. It would make sense if other CC registries could adopt the practice of .nl, .no, .de etc when it comes to providing a database of their registered domains and ancillary data. Regards. Mike