registry handle issues [was: Deletion of German domains]

  Andre, Randy,
  
  wrt handles we have to declare defeat, unfortunately.
  
  One of the last major (undeclared :-) battles we lost was the migration 
  of data from the "InterNIC model" environment (IP addresses and gTLDs)
  into, eventually, the NSI domain stuff and the ARIN IP stuff.
  
  Not only was this the biggest case of handle and object duplication into
  2 different regsitries (to my knowledge without an announcement being
  made or the victims being warned), but the then implicit convention of
  deriving Handle-"RegistryCode" suffixes (i.e. XY12-RIPE, AB89-APNIC) was
  broken by the invention or things like -NET -DOM -ROLE and the like.
  
  A while ago, there were a few ideas and proposals floating around (like
  using a DNS-like approach: WW144-RIPE.NET or WW144-NIC.AT), but as to my
  knowledge, no consensus was developing. Requiescat in pacem. Sigh.

  Btw, I'm really looking forward to the point in time when we'll see the
  first clash in registry names. That's going to be the beginning of the
  end of mirrors....
  
  Wilfried.

> 
> 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.
> 
Seems like we need a referal meganisme for nic-handles?

Regards,

Andre

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