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

[Michael van Elst <]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:50:10PM +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> (apologies for duplicates)
> 
> This message is a reminder of the ongoing process of removal of 
> unreferenced contact information from the RIPE Database.
> 
> We have updated the web page 
> http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/orphaned.html with a more 
> up to date list of maintainer objects relevant to this process.

The page says:

| 3.Due to the nature and the size of the data set involved, the RIPE NCC can
| not publish a list of all the objects affected.

and suggests to poll the status of the entries with a usual whois client.

Due to the nature and size of the data set involved this requires a
million queries to the RIPE database to avoid ambiguities with the
very very likeley event of rapidly reassigned handles.

I suggest to create a list of involved entries and pass it to the
maintainer in question.

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