Deletion of .de domain objects
Andrei Robachevsky andrei at ripe.net
Fri Jun 30 18:41:33 CEST 2000
Havard.Eidnes at runit.sintef.no wrote: > > > Protection of unmaintained person objects referenced from *.de > > domains was essential because the setup of DENIC database was > > planned to be done in two phases: first moving domain objects, > > and then migrating person/role objects. > > Yes, I now realize why this was done. I'm not sure I would have > done it this way, but what's done is done (cross-database references > doesn't strike me as a bright idea -- I would have waited until a > complete database was in place at DENIC). > > However, it appears that the data in the RIPE database has undergone > a considerable amount of decay since it was initially submitted. > This has over time caused some of the pointers (nic handles) to be > used where they shouldn't have been. > > In particular, I have seen "DENIC-P" pasted on person objects where > I'm quite positive that the referenced person have absolutely > nothing whatsoever to do with any domains under .DE. I've noticed > this because I've lately been cleaning up the person objects which > used to be referenced from the .NO domain objects, and a number of > them have now become protected (where they weren't before). > Håvard kindly supplied us with some examples of such nic-handles so we could look what happened. Those person objects that bear "mnt-by: DENIC-P" attribute were referenced from *.de domain objects before the latter were migrated. (We still keep *.de domains on our backup server so we were able to check this). > I don't know exactly what has caused this data decay; I'm quite > positive that the .NO domain registry has always allocated new nic > handles using "AUTO-xx" from the day that feature was available. > > Regards, > > - Håvard Regards, Andrei -- Andrei Robachevsky DB Group Manager RIPE NCC
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