NIC Handle's postfix

On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 21:43:39 +0700 (GMT+7:00)  Suwat Panitkullawat wrote:
> >From instruction in RIPE's configuration file.  There is a suggestion that
> we should not use NIC handle's postfix differrent from the source name.
> 
> Can someone explain me why?  Are there any serious errors if I do so.

Hi,

Currently, handles work per registry. That is, it is likely that
the Internic allocates SP123 to somebody else than the RIPE registry
would do. To avoid confusion, it was agreed that we would always
append -RIPE to handles we create, and that Internic would never
append -RIPE, so that these would always be different.

Apnic uses the country code due to the different political structure
in that area.

It's a hack, but it works.

Geert Jan

PS: in the very beginning we created handles with RIPE- as prefix.
I think these are nearly eradicated now. Same reason, but keep
in mind that SP123-RIPE and RIPE-SP123 are NOT the same..