Deletion of .de domain objects

> 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).

Yes, I expected that.  However, it is my claim that almost all
the references I sent you are in fact *not* reflecting the actual
real-world situation, and that these references are therefore in
all probability erroneous.  That was what I meant when I said
that the data in the RIPE DB has decayed.

- Håvard