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Peter Koch pk at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Tue Jun 9 10:28:01 CEST 1998

James Aldridge wrote:

> Why not just use NIC/RIPE-handles in the changed field?  As long as the
this covers only part of the functionality. Handles travel with persons when
they change jobs. It would be too cumbersome to change all "changed:"-fields
once a "changer" leaves the registry/company. There are ways to deal with
this problem if only email addresses are used.

> 8601:1988, perhaps) would, IMHO, be useful although it should probably be
> added by the database software rather than by the user submitting the
> update.
It could even be omitted as part of the database entry and just be returned
in a (comment) line starting with '%'. It is meta-information anyway.

-Peter

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