Who should do entries in RIPE database?
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Thu Oct 30 14:16:21 CET 1997
------- Forwarded Message From: Christian Kratzer <ck at toplink.net> Message-Id: <199710301109.MAA17929 at toplink1.toplink.net> Subject: Re: Who should do entries in RIPE database? To: schiefne at contrib.com (Carsten Schiefner) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:09:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: local-ir at ripe.net In-Reply-To: <3456024C.70C28953 at contrib.com> from "Carsten Schiefner" at Oct 28, 97 04:18:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1555 Hi > As a result of a voluminous discussion with one of POPs I would like to > point your interest on the following topic I am a little bit upset of: > > Almost everybody who knows about about the RIPE database schema (which > is no secret at all!) can do entries just by sending a mail to > 'auto-dbm at ripe.net'. This leads to an overwhelming bunch of multiple, > bad maintained or what-ever-you-want entries - especially person > objects - without any fun in grepping through them and selecting the > right one to create a new object. Example: > > There are four(!) entries for the entity "Joerg Schmidt" of "ZWF > Digitale Informations Technologie GmbH": JS893-RIPE, JS1161-RIPE, > JS1163-RIPE and JS1438-RIPE. This should be definitely stopped! > > My idea is that we should discuss future restrictions on the possibility > for everybody to put entries in the RIPE database, maybe by setting up > and maintaing access lists for every LIR. > > For me this database is a central tool in my daily work and I am very > interested in keeping quality and reliability of stored data as high > as possible. it would propably be sufficient to require a passphrase for auto-dbm at ripe.net so only regisitiers with registered passwords could submit entries or change records. This would definetely keep the "internet experts" from mucking around in the database.d Greetings Christian - -- TopLink GbR, Internet Services info at toplink.net Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7032 2701-0 Fax: +49 7032 2701-19 FreeBSD spoken here! ------- End of Forwarded Message
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