in-addr.arpa zone data in RIPE database

> 
>     Questions:
> 	    Should we automatically make the suggested changes in the
>     	    RIPE database?
> No.
I agree because there could be some cases which are not properly
detected by the automated scripts or other cases where a dns-manager
is voluntarily keeping things disalligned

>     
>     	    Or should we send mail to the technical contacts asking them
>     	    to change things?
> Yes.
I agree because many dns-managers do not even know of their registration
problems.

>     
>     	    We have asked the NIC accept change notices from us, so that
>     	    registration of reverse servers in the database would be
>     	    enough to get them into the DNS. Is this desirable?
> NO!!
I do not agree, I think it would be very useful to the European networking
community to interact with RIPE-NCC only instead of having to
interact with both RIPE-NCC and the US NIC  

I don't see the point in what Piet says:
> 
> These actions would bring RIPE on the edge of interfering
> with the responsabilities of the authoritative persons for
> a given zone, be it for "forward" or reverse mapping. The
> best RIPE can do is to send a notification to the authority
> of a given zone in case of obvious *errors*, NOT if servers
> are missing in the DB, since there may be good reason why
> they are "missing". Suppose I would be in foo.XX and I would
> have a large network with, say, 10 internal and 2 external
> nameservers for my domain; if I would loose connectivity to
> the outside world, those 10 internal nameservers would be
> unreachable and it would be pointless to have nameservers
> all over the Internet try to query them all. Therefore I
> would have only, say, 2 internal and the 2 external servers
> listed for foo.XX in the XX zone file and in the RIPE DB
> and I would absolutely not appreciate it if RIPE would send
> me time and again a notification that there are more servers
> for foo.XX than actually listed in the XX zone or the DB.

If you "have only, say, 2 internal and the 2 external servers
listed for foo.XX in the XX zone file" how could the RIPE-NCC script
discover the other 8 internal servers? Looking in glass ball?

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