Deletion of .de domain objects

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Michael Holzt wrote:

> I just got response from the denic regarding my questions about future
> updates to handles. [...]

We would really like to act supportive - but somehow it came we cannot.
Noone asked or told us by time. There was no information available in
advance and the update session itself was a whole mess. Handles have been
changed to mnt-by: DENIC-P even if we have had them protected with our mnt
object just a day before. Even better, the corrected address data has also
been changed. The reason for this was the use of a two or more days old
data backup as a basis for the updates. This leads to a well known
problem: lost updates. Great deal.

Interestingly, at least some of these overwritten updates came back later.
Furthermore, I cannot understand the rules which have been applied to the
importer of the DENIC database. Which data is now there? Yesterday's RIPE
data? One week before? With corrected updates? And so on....

A strategy that prevents small providers from self-managing "their"
domains is inacceptable for us, as well.  Stupid enough, that only DENIC
members can modify or register domain names. Now, all information should
be unchangeable for others than them? Why?

In other countries and the internet as a whole, decentralization means
deregulation. Maybe, that it is needed that .de domains and data has to
leave the RIPE's main database. But does this also mean that handling has
to be different or principalized? I say no.

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