Re: Deletion of .de domain objects
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:41:33 +0200
- Organization: RIPE NCC
Havard.Eidnes@localhost wrote:
>
> > Protection of unmaintained person objects referenced from *.de
> > domains was essential because the setup of DENIC database was
> > planned to be done in two phases: first moving domain objects,
> > and then migrating person/role objects.
>
> Yes, I now realize why this was done. I'm not sure I would have
> done it this way, but what's done is done (cross-database references
> doesn't strike me as a bright idea -- I would have waited until a
> complete database was in place at DENIC).
>
> However, it appears that the data in the RIPE database has undergone
> a considerable amount of decay since it was initially submitted.
> This has over time caused some of the pointers (nic handles) to be
> used where they shouldn't have been.
>
> In particular, I have seen "DENIC-P" pasted on person objects where
> I'm quite positive that the referenced person have absolutely
> nothing whatsoever to do with any domains under .DE. I've noticed
> this because I've lately been cleaning up the person objects which
> used to be referenced from the .NO domain objects, and a number of
> them have now become protected (where they weren't before).
>
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).
> I don't know exactly what has caused this data decay; I'm quite
> positive that the .NO domain registry has always allocated new nic
> handles using "AUTO-xx" from the day that feature was available.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Håvard
Regards,
Andrei
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Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC
