Andrew,
A still open question is what to do with people residing in Europe having a InterNIC handle already. You surely want these people to have a RIPE handle as well, I presume. This, however, would mean that such a person has two handles, which is confusing.
People should have just one handle; not two.
Agreed. One person, one SSN. :-).
I think that the question that we are trying to solve is: If someone does not have a handle of any sort and we (some registry - like RIPE or the NIC) want to assign him one, how do we assign him one such that the handle is unique?
Sure. This is raised in the document Daniel submitted. I just raised two additional things: - people already having a INIC-handle - some people occur in the RIPE Data Base more than once If we feel this is outside the scope of the proposal, let's quit the issue. My personal opinion is that we need to address this as well. __ Erik-Jan. NIC-handle: EJB (or should it be EJB-RIPE).