Re: Reminder: Removal of selected sets of contact information from the RIPE Database

[Andrei Robachevsky <]

Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:11:31PM +0200, Andrei Robachevsky wrote:
> > Dear Michael van Elst,
> >
> > Could you please explain the problem? The proposed protection mechanism
> > with the RIP-NCC-PN-NONE-MNT is targeted only at individuals who have
> > unreferenced and unmaintained person objects and want to protect their
> > objects in the database.
> >
> > It is not supposed to be used by a maintainer from the published list.
> 
> Sorry if there was a misunderstanding. It's not about protecting entries.
> 
> I am responsible for a huge part of the to-be-deleted entries (XLINK-MNT)
> and I would really _welcome_ a list of the then deleted entries belonging
> to XLINK-MNT to synchronize this change with our own databases.
> 
> It would be less of a problem if RIPE wouldn't re-assign handles. But
> as it is, our only way is to validate each and every database entry
> to find out what had been deleted.
>

We will try to help maintainers responsible for huge amount of contact
information stored in the RIPE Database. If you feel you need such help,
please contact ripe-dbm@localhost (with a copy to myself,
andrei@localhost) to discuss your situation.

Thanks,

 
Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC


 
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