Inconsistent NIC handles

>   From woeber at cc.univie.ac.at Mon Oct  9 11:39:50 1995

Dear Wilfried,

>   >The problem I noticed is that somebody (inadvertently) registered a person
>   >with an Internic-type NIC handle (i.e. without the "-RIPE" suffix) in the
>   >RIPE database. 
>   
>     This is a perfectly legal situation, as long as the person being
>     described has a unique handle assigned already, probably from the
>     InterNIC.

I know, this is how I am registered myself (JZ38).

>   >The result is an inconsistency between the two databases
>   >(RIPE and Internic). One gets different answers, depending on whom one asks the
>   >question.
>   
>     Not necessarily so! The IneterNIC is expected to accept handles
>     assigned by other regsitries interchangably when importing data
>     (objects) from other sources. 

I am sorry if I was not clear enough. This is not a theoretical question.
A mistake had actually been made. I did not (and still do not) want to make
public (to such a big audience) the concrete case, since I do not want to 
offend the person (and the registry in last instance) who made this mistake.
I will let you know by private mail. (I had already notified David before I
sent the original message).

>   PS: If you could point out the affected objects we could possibly find
>       out what went wrong or if there is really a flaw in the logistics...

See above.

Best regards,
Janos