Re: NIC Handles

[Marten Terpstra <]

 * A still open question is what to do with people residing in Europe having
 * a InterNIC handle already. You surely want these people to have a RIPE
 * handle as well, I presume. This, however, would mean that such a person
 * has two handles, which is confusing.

Andrew is right here. One person, one nic-handle. We have been talking
about the way to introduce this, and we came up with something along
the lines of:

- no flag day, ie no day where we assign everyone in the database a
handle
- assign handles where there are conflicts using the new scheme
- assign nic handles on request (by sending in a person with
nic-handle: assign)

 * Possible solutions?:
 * - flag these people and assign them a RIPE handle and reject the INIC
 *   handle.
 * - leave the INIC handle as is, and use this inside the RIPE Data Base.
 * - Live with the confusion of more than one handle per person.
 * 
 * A totally different thing is that there are people in the data base more
 * than once. I guess this is really hard to flag automatically, but this
 * needs to be sorted out as well.

That is on my list now. I will write some script to find all possible
and real conflicts currently in the database. Our guess is that it is
not that many today. These have to solved by manually.

-Marten