Deletion of German domains

> You are right, we are moving only domain objects. The person objects
> will remain in the RIPE Database for several months.

and how will person:s work?  in general, i am confused about this.  e.g.

   whois -h whois.ripe.net dom.ain

causes a referral to a domain: object with a tech-c: of <handle>-RIPE, or is
it <handle>-DENIC?

if the former, <handle>-RIPE then it would seem that either
  o all the person:s stay at ripe database, or
  o the person:s are mirrored from denic database to ripe database

if the latter, <handle>-DENIC, then it would seem that either
  o all the person:s are mirrored in the ripe database, or
  o the above whois query will not be able to show the requestor the
    person:s

in general there is a problem of duplication (or lack thereof as ripe seems
uninclined to mirror any data except radb and apnic) as oposed to referral
for handles.  i am trying to understand the best practice we can muster now
and what we might do in the future.

for the curious, i run the RGNET database at whois.rg.net.  the purpose is
twofold, referree for some cctlds and my routing data.  radb mirrors these
data but ripe does not.  i am confused whether i am rb366 or rb366-arin, and
in how many databases i need to maintain the person:s.

randy