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Barak Engel
barak at netvision.net.il
Mon Jan 4 16:42:07 CET 1999
Hi, > Lets discuss, what measures should be taken to circumvent the situation you describe. > I can see the problem from two different point of views: > > 1) Yours. Then we have to close the database down, to a bare > documentation-tool for IP-Nets, accessible only by the registries. Thats not what I said. For example, the DB could only hide specific fields behind a password. For example, the "descr" field which gives away the company name. > 2) Mine. I need the database to track technical problems and people who are able to solve them. (hopefully, this view is shared by most of the people here ;)) Including myself. But on the other hand, there is a problem here which, I feel, needs to be addressed. The database structure was implemented in times when the Internet was not so business oriented as it is today. I think that it may need some rethinking to fit the times, so to speak :-) > The security mechanism, which is in place, is not technical, it is just organisational. There is a copyright on the database. The uses, you describe, are forbidden by this copyright. > > If someone violates this copyright, at least in Germany there are other measures to forbid such a use of the database. Well, lucky for you in Germany :-) Seriously, though, there is no way in which you could actually prove, in court, the sort of thing I describe. I am talking from personal experience... *sigh* 10x again, Sincerely, \'"'/ Barak Engel ( o o ) ---------------------ooOO-^-oOOo--------------------------- barak at netvision.net.il Network Expert BE-RIPE BE174 Phone/Fax: +972 48 560600/551132 Cellular: +972 50 469 341 -----------------------------------------------------------
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