Adding nic handles to contact objects without one
Andreas.Wittkemper at de.uu.net Andreas.Wittkemper at de.uu.net
Mon Mar 1 12:47:06 CET 1999
Hello, Joao Luis Silva Damas <joao at ripe.net> writes: > "Eamonn" <Eamonn at ripe.net> writes: > * > * Hi Joao, > * > * I'd like to know what exactly are the advantages (and to whom) to > * adding a nic-hdl to person objects which don't already have one ? > * > > I think there are benefits for everyone. The database becomes more coherent, > ambiguity between different people with the same name disappears (especially > if as you say below, references by name are then substituted by references to > NIC Handles). > > * In some cases a person (without a nic-hdl) has their name referenced > * in other Db objects. This was before nic-hdls were mandatory. So if > * you add a nic-hdl to such a person's person object what can be done to > * those objects which reference his/her name ? > > That, I think, is a discussion for these lists. Either the user does it or the > RIPE NCC can do it if users wish to. Of course this can only be done for > references by name corresponding to names that are unique in the database, > otherwise we wouldn't know who to assign the object to and we shouldn't. It would be a great pleasure for us, if the RIPE NCC could do this task. We have some very old assigments which lack the nic-hdls. So if we only had to sort out the ambigious person objects it would be very helpful. But... > * > * There is no way of distinguishing the names referenced in the contact > * attributes of these objects since a similar name can refer to > * different people. > * > > Indeed. it should be remarked that the person object has been assigned a nic-handle by the RIPE-NCC so that a human can easier recognize the old object and can update the referenced objects. For example: remarks: nic-handle added by the RIPE-NCC consistency project (19990301) > > * Then you have the problem where these people created a new person > * object for themselves when nic-hdls became mandatory and left their > * old person object for dead. How will you overcome these old person > * objects ? > * > > Yes, that happened in the past. The software can cope with that now so we > shouldn't see cases like those any more. > The cleanup I think is best done within the consistency project which is right > now regaining speed (more on that soon...) Regards, Andreas Wittkemper NIC & DNS Team UUNET Deutschland GmbH Tel. +49 231 972 00 Emil-Figge-Stra_e 80 Fax. +49 231 972 1177 44227 Dortmund, Germany Andreas.Wittkemper at de.uu.net URL: http://www.uunet.de
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