Unique NIC/RIPE/xxx-Handles

Duncan Rogerson <D.Rogerson at nosc.ja.net> writes
 * > handle:  XXXXYYY at ncc.ripe.net
 * ..
 * > etc.?  Or, if that might confuse NIC handles with email addresses,
 * > replacing the @ with another character?
 * 
 * I think having something that looks like an e-mail address is
 * a bad idea, it's too confusing.
 * 
 * Given that one of the aims of handles is (I think !) a more
 * compact, shorthand form of referring to someone, the  RIPE-DR222
 * idea sounds better to me - DR222 at rs.internic.net is longer than
 * my real name !

I have to agree here. I think a nice syntax would be:

<NIC>-XXXYYY

where it is probably is too much hastle to ask InterNIC to redo all their
nic-hdls to have INTERNIC-XXXYYY, so they probably keep the handles without
the NIC. The others could be:

RIPE-MT2
APNIC-MT2
...

Question is, to what level do we go down for the NIC ? Should we go down to

DENIC-MT2
JANET-MT2

I don;t think so. My sense of NIC for the handles should be the highest level
IP number authorities in the area .... (ie continents)

Just another opinion,

-Marten