Deletion of German domains

Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> believe me, i do understand and have sympathy with the view consistancy
> issue.  but ...
> 
> please explain how i can reconcile
> 
> > All person objects will stay in the RIPE Database until moved to DENIC
> > one (with different suffix).
> 
> with
> 
> > Current setup of the RIPE database requires that the database (source)
> > should be self consistent - that is no external references are allowed.
> > Referral mechanism for domains is different.
> 
> given
> 
>   whois -h whois.ripe.net dom.ain.de
> 
> returning <handle>-DENIC, so i then follow with
> 
>   whois -h whois.ripe.net <handle>-DENIC
> 
> i can only conclude, givem the first quoted paragraph above, that the data
> must be manually entered in both databases or that ripe mirrors denic's
> database.
> 
> randy, clueless in seattle

During the transition phase scenario is slightly different:

whois -h whois.ripe.net dom.ain.de

will return <handle>-RIPE, though with source DENIC, which does not look
very nice, I agree. Anyway there is an indication that "The object shown
below is NOT in the RIPE database. It has been obtained by querying a
remote server".
This also means that during this phase DENIC mirrors the RIPE Database.

When finally DENIC has its own person database one will get
<handle>-DENIC indeed. But then there is no need to query whois.ripe.net
for this handle.

Sorry if I missed something.

Regards,

Andrei, waiting for comments in Amsterdam.