more authority for mnt-lower in the allocation objects

Hi,

Tanja Heimes wrote:
[..]
> This is my opinion:
> Yes, it makes sence that RIPE NCC is the maintainer of a LIRs
> allocation.
> But in my opinion it makes NO sence that Cable and Wireles (and all
> other LIRs) as mnt-lower
> do not have the authority to change their own administrative and
> technical contacts in the allocation.

IMO this is correct. The LIR should be able to modify this information
without needing to write to hostmaster at ripe.net (which may take some
time depending on how busy the hostmaster team is).

admin-c, tech-c, mnt-lower and mnt-routes within an allocation should be 
changeable by the LIR itself.

I know this is difficult to accomplish while "mnt-by:" points to
an ripe-maintainer. But as far as i know RIPE has a second database
where all allocations are stored for cross-checlking. Therefore we could 
take an approach where the allocation may only be created by RIPE but 
may be updated by the according LIR. This can simply be accomplished by 
removing  the RIPE-Maintainer from the object after creation and change it
to the according maintainer of the LIR.

regards,

  Arnd Vehling
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