Reminder: Removal of selected sets of contact information from the RIPE Database

Dear Michael van Elst,

(ripe-list is removed from the cc:)

Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:50:10PM +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > (apologies for duplicates)
> >
> > This message is a reminder of the ongoing process of removal of
> > unreferenced contact information from the RIPE Database.
> >
> > We have updated the web page
> > http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/orphaned.html with a more
> > up to date list of maintainer objects relevant to this process.
> 
> The page says:
> 
> | 3.Due to the nature and the size of the data set involved, the RIPE NCC can
> | not publish a list of all the objects affected.
> 
> and suggests to poll the status of the entries with a usual whois client.
> 
> Due to the nature and size of the data set involved this requires a
> million queries to the RIPE database to avoid ambiguities with the
> very very likeley event of rapidly reassigned handles.
>

Could you please explain the problem? The proposed protection mechanism
with the RIP-NCC-PN-NONE-MNT is targeted only at individuals who have
unreferenced and unmaintained person objects and want to protect their
objects in the database. 

It is not supposed to be used by a maintainer from the published list.

 
> I suggest to create a list of involved entries and pass it to the
> maintainer in question.
> 
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Regards,

 
Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC