Events of Tuesday, 27 October 1998.

Dear Mr. Kalogeras,

Thus wrote Dimitrios Kalogeras (D.Kalogeras at noc.ntua.gr):

[...]
> 
> Mistakes are not improbable, however I can not condone your inadequate
> backup procedures. Its totally out of imagination that you may have rouinned
> the RIPE database. You have to keep yourself more dedicated to your work.
> 

You forget that the RIPE DB is very much a moving target. There were
backups, we (Xlink) even have a copy due to running a RIPE mirror, 
but what does that help? it took some time until the mass deletions 
were detected, and there were ample changes in the meantime. 
Re-enacting these would have been almost as much headache and also 
prone to oversights as repairing what was done and not interfering 
with standard operations.

The only thing that /would/ have helped would have been a switch from
take-first-free-handle to take-highest-existing+1, but that is not a
trivial change either.

kind regards,
	Petra Zeidler
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