[db-wg] Is it possible to choose your own NIC Handle when creating ROLE objects?

There are options to create something easy to remember .. 

We did this as well and used AS51088 as our input for the ripe role object. (AS51088-RIPE) 

https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=AS51088-RIPE&type=role 

Regards,
Erik Bais
Ripe nic-hdl: bais-ripe 

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

> Op 30 apr. 2016 om 03:05 heeft <ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk> <ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi Øystein
> 
> Whoever told you that is mistaken. If you type "-v role" in the web query form it shows you the allowed syntax for a ROLE object's "nic-hdl:" attribute:
> 
> From 2 to 4 characters optionally followed by up to 6 digits
>      optionally followed by a source specification.  The first digit
>      must not be "0".  Source specification starts with "-" followed
>      by source name up to 9-character length.
> So you can set any Nic Handle you wish as long as it follows these rules and it doesn't already exist and has never existed (they cannot be reused after deletion).
> 
> cheers
> denis
> 
> 
> From: Øystein Gåsdal <dal at alesund.kommune.no>
> To: "'db-wg at ripe.net'" <db-wg at ripe.net> 
> Sent: Saturday, 30 April 2016, 1:00
> Subject: [db-wg] Is it possible to choose your own NIC Handle when creating ROLE objects?
> 
> Hi
> I’m trying to create some ROLE objects, but encounter an error: nic-hdl: Syntax error
>  
> I was told from support that in ROLE and PERSON object, I must use AUTO-1 as NIC handle.
>  
> This information is not correct for the PERSON object, since I choose my own NIC handle when I created my own PERSON object.
> So is there a way around this for the ROLE object, too?
>  
> Thanks.
> - Øystein
> 
> 
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