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

[Francisco Guerreiro <]

Jeroen Massar wrote:

> 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...
>
>  
It's for a university paper, the value of the information is the 
information itself, don't think about
practical use for the information, since the practical use is actually 
writing the paper :)
The person(s) who is the admin-c/tech-c or the company behind it, that's the
prime of information I want.

> 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.
>  
well, I had to apply a filter to ripe.db.inetnum too :) that's no 
biggie, best to do is to read
a little bit of the whole db, do a parser for common entry's and 
separate them from different ones.
on the person case, it's just a matter of stripping/converting some 
characters and tolower() them.
After that, I can right the regex I need to parse the data and store it 
on a sql db :) then, it's just a matter
of making concept relations between the collected data. Internet Contact 
information is of no use to me
since if any contact with any company should be made in the future on 
this or other papers, it would be
through registered 'snail' mail, as one should always do (at least if 
you live in Portugal :D) in official communications between 
Companys/Universitys. It's funny because the actual contact information 
is of no
use to me anyway, if any contact would be made, I'd have to phone the 
company to find out the person who deals with that kind of mail and 
address it to that person, or it would be simply discarded. So, as I
think I made it clear, my intentions aren't those of a 
spammer/whatever-alike, I just need legitimate information that's not 
(that) available anymore due to bad use of it (i guess).

regards,
Francisco Guerreiro

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