Re: about ripe.db on ftp.ripe.net

[Jeroen Massar <]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:47 +0000, Francisco Guerreiro wrote:
> Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 
> >Nevertheless for statistical analysis you can most likely do without
> >that information anyway. Usually the person's are role's and/or generic
> >mailboxes anyways. If you want to see the amount of 'same persons' you
> >can also compare the handles themselves...
> >  
> >
> well, if I'm asking about that information, it's because I need it.
> I don't care about the e-mail contact on the person: object, that's
> not useful information for my work.

I wonder what kind of research you are doing? Maybe indexing prefixes
based on the administrative contact? Note that it is contact
information, not the location of the prefix. Nor does it have any
relation on location or whatsoever against the prefix in the database,
thus I wonder what the value of that information could be, except for
contact or direct marketing purposes...

> And I can't compare the handles
> since they are several per person, hence the need for the person db.

1 person can have multiple handles, but 1 handle maps to 1 person/role.
And even if you had the info you would need to apply a very smart filter
because if a person has multiple handles you can't do a direct match as
a space extra, comma here, different address there and it already breaks
your statistical analysis with incorrect assumptions.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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