RIPE Handle

Internet handles issued by the RIPE NCC are called RIPE handles. The purpose of a RIPE handle is to uniquely identify a person in the RIPE network management database and other related databases that choose to use it.

so we manufacture Internet Handles!

... All persons in the RIPE database must have an Internet handle.

agreed.

Every person in any of the databases keeping contact information should only use Internet handle.

sure enough, probably this isn't telling me what was intended?

Assignment ... It should be noted that the RIPE NCC only issues RIPE handles and not other Internet handles.

this is in contradiction to the first assumption!??? ____________________ I think the wording, and maybe even the thinking, has to be made a little bit clearer (at least to me :-) I'm reading the proposal to mean the following: - On a global scale, we need unique handles (Internet Handles). - InterNIC doesn't provide them for use by Regional Registries - There is an agreement that Internet Handles are manufactured in a distributed way by appending the Regional Registry code - It doesn' matter from where I get the handle, it is an Intenet Handle that is globally unique and valid. (ie. I can get my person object registered in any database other than the RIPE-DB with my RIPE-assigned Internet Handle) **correct?? - we have to get this going by a) converting all existing handles, which have by definition been assigned by the InterNIC into the -INIC format/syntax b) assign -RIPE format/syntax handles for all the others in the RIPE-DB - to keep it going we refuse person objects, that do neither come with an Internet Handle, nor request assignment by the agreed string of "assign" Anything wrong with this? Wilfried (WW144-INIC :-)