Deletion of German domains

>>>>   According to the agreement between RIPE NCC and DENIC we plan
>>> Has this agreement been published?
>> No, this is a working agreement about technical details. It is based on
>> the community consensus that domain related information (excluding
>> reverse delegations) should be moved from the RIPE Database to the
>> respective ccTLD databases.
> Fair enough, but community consensus must be recorded.

i am confused here.  i presume the communities involved, ripe ncc and denic,
reached a consensus and one or the other would be whining if not.  why
should this be a concern of the other lirs or the wg or you or me?

> What ever happened to the auto-referral mechanism, whereby a query
> about a moved object could be referred onward to the appropriate
> whois server?

is this not just for domain:s?

randy