Re: Database security

[Jens Hoffmann <]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:22:02PM +0200, Barak Engel wrote:
> 
>  I suggest that some security feature be added to the database.

Lets discuss, what measures should be taken to circumvent the situation
you describe.

I can see the problem from two different point of views:

1) Yours. Then we have to close the database down, to a bare
   documentation-tool for IP-Nets, accessible only by the registries.

2) Mine. I need the database to track technical problems and
   people who are able to  solve them. (hopefully, this view is shared
   by most of the people here ;))

The security mechanism, which is in place, is not technical, it
is just organisational. There is a copyright on the database.
The uses, you describe, are forbidden by this copyright.

If someone violates this copyright, at least in Germany there are other
measures to forbid such a  use of the database.

Greetings,
   Jens Hoffmann
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