Who should do entries in RIPE database?

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From: Christian Kratzer <ck at toplink.net>
Message-Id: <199710301109.MAA17929 at toplink1.toplink.net>
Subject: Re: Who should do entries in RIPE database?
To: schiefne at contrib.com (Carsten Schiefner)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:09:58 +0100 (MET)
Cc: local-ir at ripe.net
In-Reply-To: <3456024C.70C28953 at contrib.com> from "Carsten Schiefner" at Oct 28, 97 04:18:36 pm
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Hi

> As a result of a voluminous discussion with one of POPs I would like to
> point your interest on the following topic I am a little bit upset of:
> 
> Almost everybody who knows about about the RIPE database schema (which
> is no secret at all!) can do entries just by sending a mail to
> 'auto-dbm at ripe.net'. This leads to an overwhelming bunch of multiple,
> bad maintained or what-ever-you-want entries - especially person
> objects - without any fun in grepping through them and selecting the
> right one to create a new object. Example:
> 
> There are four(!) entries for the entity "Joerg Schmidt" of "ZWF
> Digitale Informations Technologie GmbH": JS893-RIPE, JS1161-RIPE,
> JS1163-RIPE and JS1438-RIPE. This should be definitely stopped!
> 
> My idea is that we should discuss future restrictions on the possibility 
> for everybody to put entries in the RIPE database, maybe by setting up
> and maintaing access lists for every LIR.
> 
> For me this database is a central tool in my daily work and I am very
> interested in keeping quality and reliability of stored data as high
> as possible.

it would propably be sufficient to require a passphrase for auto-dbm at ripe.net
so only regisitiers with registered passwords could submit entries or 
change records.   

This would definetely keep the "internet experts" from mucking around
in the database.d

Greetings
Christian

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