raw minutes for RIPE35 DB-WG

### On Thu, 18 May 2000 08:38:44 +0200, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> casually
### decided to expound upon Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net>
### the following thoughts about "Re: raw minutes for RIPE35 DB-WG":

RB> > This is a bad idea. Many people querying the RIPE NCC whois server
RB> > do so with the intention to obtain authoritative information from the
RB> > RIPE DB, and they get just that by default. Changing this behaviour would
RB> > result in a lot of confusion, irritation and serious user support load.
RB> > Given the fact that those who want to see data from all sources can
RB> > obtain that by just adding '-a' to their queries, such a change is totally
RB> > unnecessary.
RB> 
RB> thank you.  
RB> 
RB> hint: it will break existing scripts.  and one could not even fix them,
RB> unless you put in -not-a or something similarly disgusting.

The issue here is that the current policy is a requirement for all
information pertaining to RIPE allocations to be shown by default.  The
proposal I made to do first-hit all-source-searching was in response to the
above policy.  The motivation is that I would like to see some ability for
independent distributed registry support whereby any organisation may run
their own registry and pull their RIPE information out of the RIPE DB,
maintain it themselves in their own registry, and then mirror the
information back to RIPE DB servers for query.  I myself saw no alternative
to acheiving this goal without either changing the default search behaviour
in the whois server or changing the policy.  I thus chose to propose the
technical solution and saw no other technical solution although I would be
more than happy to have someone propose something better.  BTW, current
tools don't do source filtering?


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