Re: Whoisfix BOF 51st IETF / Minutes

[Engin Gunduz <engin@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,


On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Here are the excellent notes that Ted took, unchanged.  The polling cited
> at the end of the notes includes the list of possible task items suggested
> by attendees.
>
> If there are no objections to these notes by this Friday, I'll post them to
> the IETF secretariat.
>
> d/
>
[....]
> With that background Marjann presented how they use whois and noted that
                       ^^^^^^^
Mirjam Kuehne


> APNIC uses a version of the RIPE NCC code for similar purposes, to whit:
> track IP and ASN allocation, maintain contact info, and maintain both
> reverse and forward domain name data.  Data are populated both by the RIPE
> NCC and the domain holders.  In addition, RIPE uses whois as part of its
[....]
>
> Randy then gave a presentation of NIC handle info in the whois data at ARIN
> and RIPE, which notes that different registries have different identities
> attached to the same identifier, despite a hack that tries to use
> REGISTRY-handle method for associating data to the original handle.  This
> is partly because of RIPE's method of doing referential integrity (dumping
> the other database into their own).

This is not the case: the other DBs are not dumped into our own. We just
allow users to create person objects with non-RIPE NIC handles.

Thanks for the  minutes,
-engin


Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Database Group