another lookup problem

Hi,

As APNIC uses the RIPE database software, I thought I might intrude
here for a second and throw in my two yen.

>>  Names likes this will be rejected in the next release of the updating
>>  code. Names should consist of at least two parts, not counting
>>  abbreviated parts/titles.

As I have mentioned in the past, there are people who have only one
name.  If you decide to do this, please make a compile or run-time
configuration option that will defeat this syntax check.

>  WRT "fuzzy" / wildcard matches - it would make the RIPE-DB software
>  more user friendly (and maybe more attractive for deployment by other
>  registries) to provide for (implicit/explicit) regexp or partial key
>  matches.

To what end?  Is the purpose of the database registration information
lookup or a more general white pages service?  I' would suggest the
former and leave the latter to the WHOIS++/LDAP/X.500 crowd.

Regards,
-drc