Modifying references to contact info in the RIPE DB

>I explicitly excluded those objects from this run.

  Great.

>I knew this thing was going to be a bit polemic so I am trying to split into 
>smaller problems and stages that we can all agree to.

  Well, complex, at least. I fully support your approach!

>Hopefully every step will reduce the number of objects that need repairs. And 
>believe me, it's not the same to have to fix 250000 objects than to fix 25000. 
>Somehow the latter seems a bit more feasible (from a "let's deal with this" 
>attitude).

  Certainly.

>So, can we agree to proceed with our suggestion as stated below?
>**
>Change references by names to references by nic handle where these are unique 
>(there are not already more than two persons with the same referenced name).
>**

  I agree.

>For the cases where the ambiguity is already there: we'll look at them, try to 
>categorize them

  Sounds interesting. 
  I really like the approach taken by Poul-Henning with his IP address
  page. Maybe we can come up with a similar list, e.g. categorized by
  object type, and within the object type by LIR, TLD, AS-#, Maintainer...

>and maybe identify another subset which can be handled by 
>drawing information from some other source.
>We'll get back to you with our suggestion (and we take the two you mention as 
>input). Any input is most welcome.

  Wilfried.