Re: Oooooh!
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:15:16 +0200
Guy wrote:
Having looked at Maldwyn's excellent diagram, I now
"get it".
I think your value of "excellent" may need updating...
I used Somewindowssharewaretool + MSPaint + PaintShop
but now I've found dia, I wish I'd used that:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/index.html
Yes: I think it looks right. That I can deal with.
Cool.
I especially like the idea of abstracting over the
prexisting customer DB, but feel that in far too
many cases, leaving it to the LIR to impliment that
will be far too hard.
Agreed - I think we should provide a default, simple
one.
What I have discovered is that it was easier for
Level 3 to clean up the RIPE registry and import
that with scripts than to try and convert the old
QIP Oracle databse.
Interesting.
(I am still finishing off the scripts; there are
several issues. When finished, I shall report back
experiences to this list).
Therefore, I think that including a set of scripts
with version 1.0, that, _if necessary_ can create a
ready to go database in one of the free RDBMS's out
of the RIPE Whois database is a good idea.
OK.
That way, WRT migrating the old data; those who can,
will and thosew who would have dificulty can fall
back on this system, which is still easier that
doing all the work themselves.
Sounds like A Good Idea.
Thanks for your valuable insight. I think the Top-down
"We don't know much about it, but we think it should look
like this" and the Bottom-up "We've actually done this,
you know" are getting close to meeting in the middle...
Cheers,
Maldwyn
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
