another lookup problem

  Hi David!

=>  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.

  Two things here:
  
  - local langauge problems (European National Character Sets) which make
    it difficult to find out about a (arbitrarily chosen) transcription.
    
  - comments from other environments, where the lack of this feature was
    quoted as a major obstacle to use this software 'cause this
    functionality is provided right now.
    
  The remark about the white pages is understood, although I don't think
  we should limit the sw functionality to avoid misuse :-)
  
  Thanks for throwing in your 2 yen.
  Wilfried.