Re: Modifying references to contact info in the RIPE DB

[Bernard Steiner <]

Hi there,

> At this point, we would like to automatically go through all the references by 
> name which can uniquely be assigned to a person or role object and substitute 
> them by references to their nic handles.

> Later we will go through the process of fixing the non-unique references left 
> in the database. This process requires user intervention since we can't decide 
> who "owns" a particular set of resources.
> For this later stage, we will be preparing reports that we will send to all 
> maintainers for whom we detect objects with inconsistencies and try to get 
> them fixed. Information about this part will be sent to the lists in a few 
> weeks.

I would suggest to send change suggestions to maintainers, or maintainers of
supernets, instead of doing automatic changes.
I have the feeling that some person objects may have been deleted and person
objects with the same name may have been inserted, and the two people may be 
different. Automatically attaching objects to the wrong person instead of
realizing that the person reference is broken is not really good for database 
consistency.

Just my Rp. 10 (CHF 0.05 being the smallest coin ;-)
	Bernard