From woeber@cc.univie.ac.at Mon Oct 9 11:39:50 1995

Dear Wilfried,

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The problem I noticed is that somebody (inadvertently) registered a person with an Internic-type NIC handle (i.e. without the "-RIPE" suffix) in the RIPE database.

This is a perfectly legal situation, as long as the person being described has a unique handle assigned already, probably from the InterNIC.

I know, this is how I am registered myself (JZ38).

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The result is an inconsistency between the two databases (RIPE and Internic). One gets different answers, depending on whom one asks the question.

Not necessarily so! The IneterNIC is expected to accept handles assigned by other regsitries interchangably when importing data (objects) from other sources.

I am sorry if I was not clear enough. This is not a theoretical question. A mistake had actually been made. I did not (and still do not) want to make public (to such a big audience) the concrete case, since I do not want to offend the person (and the registry in last instance) who made this mistake. I will let you know by private mail. (I had already notified David before I sent the original message).

PS: If you could point out the affected objects we could possibly find out what went wrong or if there is really a flaw in the logistics...

See above. Best regards, Janos