Oooooh!

Guy wrote:

>Having looked at Maldwyn's excellent diagram, I now
>"get it".

I think your value of "excellent" may need updating...
I used Somewindowssharewaretool + MSPaint + PaintShop
but now I've found dia, I wish I'd used that:

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/index.html

>Yes: I think it looks right. That I can deal with.

Cool.

>I especially like the idea of abstracting over the
>prexisting customer DB, but feel that in far too
>many cases, leaving it to the LIR to impliment that
>will be far too hard.

Agreed - I think we should provide a default, simple
one.

>What I have discovered is that it was easier for
>Level 3 to clean up the RIPE registry and import
>that with scripts than to try and convert the old
>QIP Oracle databse.

Interesting.

>(I am still finishing off the scripts; there are
>several issues. When finished, I shall report back
>experiences to this list).
>
>Therefore, I think that including a set of scripts
>with version 1.0, that, _if necessary_ can create a
>ready to go database in one of the free RDBMS's out
>of the RIPE Whois database is a good idea.

OK.

>That way, WRT migrating the old data; those who can,
>will and thosew who would have dificulty can fall
>back on this system, which is still easier that
>doing all the work themselves.

Sounds like A Good Idea.

Thanks for your valuable insight. I think the Top-down
"We don't know much about it, but we think it should look
like this" and the Bottom-up "We've actually done this,
you know" are getting close to meeting in the middle...

Cheers,

Maldwyn

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