Who should do entries in RIPE database?

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From: Dale Amon as Operator <root at starbase1.gpl.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 97 11:21:59 GMT
To: Carsten Schiefner <schiefne at contrib.com>
Subject: Re: Who should do entries in RIPE database?
Cc: local-ir at ripe.net
Reply-To: amon at galileo.gpl.com
References: <3456024C.70C28953 at contrib.com>

> 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!
>

Why?

> 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.
>

Please let's not add more things to remember. The job of admin people at
ISP's is rough enough as it is. I'd personally rather see every possible
effort made to decrease work loads on everyone's part, and to decrease
the number of things that need to be remembered. I applaud the improvements
made in the RIPE database over the last 5 years. The "smarts" in the
process are a real help for people who are trying to do so many things at
once that errors are inevitable.

> 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 is also a central tool in my work and I am more interested in simplicity
of the process of working with my own data than I am in simplicity of others
using my data. So long as my routing and DNS work, I could care less
if someone has 500 entries under their name.



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