Dear Sabine,
We mirror the RIPE objects and there will be current no difference between RIPE and DENIC stored information. There is indeed a difference between RIPE and DENIC published information. And that is because of German data protection laws. We migrate to a sheme where personal data has to be stored whithin DENIC and after a while of migration we will stopp to acceppt RIPE Handles and at that point unreferrenced objects whithin RIPE can be deleted and updates have to be made in both databases.
Since it will be only possible for DENIC-members to change Person/Role-objects in the DENIC-DB, as I assume, the workload of DENIC-members would raise enormously when maintaining objects for their resellers (like we are) is added to their responsibilities. Am I right here?
And why do I have the feeling I got not really informed by DENIC prior this happening about the changes?
There was more than one year discussion about this issue. It was discussed at many meetings. Before these migration we gave three time notice to our members. I feel really that we have done a lot to keep people informed.
Ok. Then it is the DENIC-member's resposibility or fault that "we" didn't get informed about these major-changes. Without being subscribed in this mailing-list, we wouldn't have been notified in any way, I think. I fully understand your tendencies to having the personal-data more secure but I, and I assume many of other "resellers" too, would appreciate a maintainer-system like currently present in the RIPE-DB, that gives all ISPs the possibility of maintaining person-/rolehandles for them and their customers in the DENIC-DB.
Sabine
Regards, Sascha --- Sascha E. Pollok Internet Port Hamburg Technical Staff / Network Operations Grosse Reichenstrasse 27 D-20457 Hamburg Germany Tel. +49 (0)40 37 49 19-0 Fax +49 (0)40 37 49 19-29 Email: sp@iphh.de ICQ #38955239