Randy Bush wrote:
believe me, i do understand and have sympathy with the view consistancy issue. but ...
please explain how i can reconcile
All person objects will stay in the RIPE Database until moved to DENIC one (with different suffix).
with
Current setup of the RIPE database requires that the database (source) should be self consistent - that is no external references are allowed. Referral mechanism for domains is different.
given
whois -h whois.ripe.net dom.ain.de
returning <handle>-DENIC, so i then follow with
whois -h whois.ripe.net <handle>-DENIC
i can only conclude, givem the first quoted paragraph above, that the data must be manually entered in both databases or that ripe mirrors denic's database.
randy, clueless in seattle
During the transition phase scenario is slightly different: whois -h whois.ripe.net dom.ain.de will return <handle>-RIPE, though with source DENIC, which does not look very nice, I agree. Anyway there is an indication that "The object shown below is NOT in the RIPE database. It has been obtained by querying a remote server". This also means that during this phase DENIC mirrors the RIPE Database. When finally DENIC has its own person database one will get <handle>-DENIC indeed. But then there is no need to query whois.ripe.net for this handle. Sorry if I missed something. Regards, Andrei, waiting for comments in Amsterdam.