request forwarding, was: Special ftp access for IRR?

  > cengiz at ISI.EDU (Cengiz Alaettinoglu) writes:
  > 
  > Daniel Karrenberg (Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net) on March  1:
  > >   > However, if
  > >   > radb gets a request from AS1 to update the copy in ripe.db, it should
  > >   > 1) forward it to ripe for processing 
  > >   > 2) return the user a message to submit the request to ripe.
  > >   > 
  > >   > I think we should do 2.
  > > 
  > > Why this?  I am curious!
  > 
  > I think AS1 made a mistake and there is no easy way to guess AS1's
  > intentions, other than to ask AS1. That is it may be the case that the
  > source line was the mistake as opposed to the registry to which the
  > update was sent.

My argument is that the object itself is more likely to represent
the intention than the address it is sent to. After years we still get
people sending requests intended to the automatic mailbox to the manual
one. 

Taking both into account I think the right thing is "forward 
with notification".

Daniel



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