Typos in assignments

Marten,

thanks for the status report.

  > The procedure for aligning databases has not yet been established. We are
  > not quite sure whether to do this incremental or just a full update. My
  > guess is that this will be discussed at the SWIP BOF at the IETF next week.
  > If people have problems that result from the fact that the different
  > databases are not aligned we would like to hear from them, so we can take
  > action.
The one thing I would like to be able is to send a list of NIC handles,
or person names, or network numbers and trigger DDN-NIC (or INTERNIC)
to align to the current RIPE records (including reverse mapping servers if
present in the records).  If the lists specified at our end are carefully
definied this would limit the danger of overwriting large parts of the target
data base unexpectedly (which easily can happen with complete alignment
- in presence of any number of typos in all data bases).
So I think we could improve much by just starting to have some way of
incremental update.

  >  * Well, we hope that with the INTERNIC service contracts now in place
  > 
  > Not yet. They start 1st of April.
I think a major problem was uncertainty of potentially involved parties
during the time that it was known that NSF would issue an RFP and the time 
the contracts were awarded...  Sure not everybody is yet up to speed...

Cheers,
  Ruediger


Ruediger Volk
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