Deletion of German domain objects

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 Havard.Eidnes at runit.sintef.no wrote:
> > > Would be the nic-hdl's in the RIPE-DB which has
> > > only a reference to an german domain object mark as
> > > "NEVER_REFD" now?
> >
> >  Yes, they will be marked as NEVER_REFD. We didn't change
> > anything in the consistency project regarding to .de
> > domain deletions. Even we did change something, since
> > person objects will be created in RIPE whois db for a couple
> > of months more, and since we won't have the new .de domains,
> > our changes would be void.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I have a hard time comprehending the above.
> 
> I have one brief question which may serve to clarify this issue:
> Is there a good reason to keep person objects in the RIPE
> database when they are no longer referenced by any other object
> in the database?  I would have thought that the answer to that
> would be a resounding "no", so I am a little more than puzzled by
> the above conversation.

Hi Havard,

 Since DENIC do not have a person/role database yet, we have migrated
only domain objects for now. After the implementation of DENIC's person/role
database, which DENIC expect to take a couple of months from now on,
we will also migrate the related person/role objects to DENIC's db.

 Until then, we will continue to keep .de domain related person/role
objects in RIPE whois database. They will also continue to create
new person/role objects in our db. 

 This may sound strange, but it is the optimal solution we could
find, thinking that more than 3 million objects are involved in
the migration process. We weren't able to do this in a single shut.

I hope it is clear now.

Best regards,

Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Database Group


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