Who should do entries in RIPE database?

Mon Nov 3 12:20:42 CET 1997

>   From owner-db-wg at ripe.net Mon Nov  3 11:27:09 1997

>   > What about creating two databases? (Two categories of objects.)
>   > One for objects sent by non-registries,
>   > and one for well maintained, authentic objects.
>   
>   This may be an orthogonal categorization. Sorry, but many of the duplicates
>   (triplicates ...) already carry the "mnt-by" attribute, sometimes
>   even two instances the same one.

There is another problem too: some objects do have a mnt-by, however the
mntner has auth: NONE! :(  Can we assume that these objects are well maintained?
My answer is: no.

Janos

PS. I have seen this with both inetnum and route objects.