Ripe change to whois
Hank Nussbacher hank at ibm.net.il
Mon Nov 30 16:14:44 CET 1998
At 04:00 PM 11/30/98 +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote: Just check http://www.checkdomain.com with some nonexistant domain housed at RIPE and tell me if something isn't wrong here. -Hank >Hello. > >I am including the tld-wg into this discussion so as to make sure all involved >parties are aware of the discussion. > > Alexander Koch <akoch at sgh-net.de> writes: > * Hello. > * > * > The design of this feature was specified some time ago by Carol Orange and > * > * > Wilfried Woeber (please see http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/ripe-27/pres > * /rout > * > e/referral/) and discussed in the RIPE db-wg mailing list (please see > * > http://www.ripe.net/mail-archives/db-wg/19970501-19970601/threads.html) > * > * Oh. Fine. Do I get it right that this was discussed and agreed on > * more than a year ago? Argh. > * > >Yes, indeed. We had a period where we have been late with developments. That >period is now behind us. > > * This change breaks too many things, imnsho, and it seems again that if > * you are not able to make it to the RIPE meetings, you have lost. A > * special announce would have been most helpful (an explicit one, stating > * this). > * > >But, we did... or so I thought. We'll look into more ways of getting this >announcements across while trying to minimize the mails sent to people who >don't care about this. > >This particular feature has been actively asked for by the ccTLD >adninistrators and seen as a good thing by everyone I have had a chance to >speak with. These are actually the first complaints about it we have got so >far. > > * > As a side note I would like to stress that the RIPE Database is NOT the so > * urce > * > of authoritative data for domain objects (although we are happy to provide > * a > * > repository for TLD administrators). > * > This is UNLIKE the internic whose business is to sell names. > * > * Oh. Fine. whois.nic.de *cough* barely ever working... Weak argument. > * And If I wanted to know the data about the domain one level higher, > * I can do so myself, I don't need to get it told to me by whois, I > * want to know whether crab.de (bad example, it really exists) is in > * the DB already or not. > >I am sorry but I can't talk about the availability of services we don't >operate. > >I am sure you can look up domains yourself but this was actually seen as >providing the users (specially the ones less familiar with the RIPE DB) with >help on where to find the correct information. > >It seems to me that over time people have developed a sense that the RIPE DB >is the authoritative source of information regarding domain names in Europe. >May be this issue should be up for debate now. > >As a matter of fact the referral mechanism was seen as a way for ccTLD >administrators to include information in the Database pointing to their own >authoritative sources of information. > > * > * > The RIPE NCC is therefore acting according to users directives that were > * > discussed and agreed on an open way. > * > * Hitchhiker's Guide, anyone? *sigh* > >??? > > * > * This was a not-so-nice change, really. Consider this a statement of > * disagreement with the way the change took place. Ok, one more mailling > * list to follow... Time to sell. > >Will do so. As I said before, we will keep modifying and developing the RIPE >DB software and in particular this feature if users feel that is what they >want. We will also provide our point view. >I would like to have the input of the community. > >Regards, >Joao > > * > * Regards, > * Alexander Koch > * > * -- > * SGH Internet Division, Alexander Koch, Systems Administration > * Hannover, Germany, Phone +49 511 909198 0, Fax +49 511 391307 > * > > > -------- Logged at Mon Nov 30 16:28:47 MET 1998 ---------
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