Deletion of .de domain objects

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Michael Holzt wrote:

> possible for members of the Denic eG, so many smaller providers who aren't
> members, but are buying their domains from another one will have to redirect
> all changes to this member. I treat this as a very brain-damaged system.

No, it is not. It will greatly help with the consistency of Person
objects. Several of our customers have several RIPE Handles - Just because
each is mnt-by a different provider.

> In the meanwhile we have Handles with the same key XYZ-RIPE, with different
> contents in RIPE-db and DeNIC-db (not only the missing remarks, but also
> phone and fax, and if someone makes changes to one of the two handles the
> other will keep the old data).

OBVIOUSLY since the Person handles have not yet been migrated, the person
data in denic's database is not authoritive.

> And then the past changes of the DeNIC to set unmaintained Handles under
> their own Maintainer DENIC-P is abusive usage of the ripe database in my
> eyes. They had no permission to change our handles and the change made no 
> sense, as the DeNIC won't support maintainers in their own database as 
> mentioned above.

So WHY did you NOT set your own maintainer before Denic did so? I seem to
remember quite clearly that there was advanced warning of this. You do
realize that a person without a maintainer can be changed by
ANYBODY? This is a serious security risk and could lead to the loss of
domains, etc.

> Why has this mess had to happen?

Maybe because people like you don't pay attention until after the fact...?


Best wishes,
Nils Jeppe

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