Deletion of German domains
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Andre Koopal
andre at NL.UU.NET
Wed Jun 28 11:13:58 CEST 2000
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:04:27AM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:20:36PM +0200, Andre Koopal wrote: > > > > > > given > > > > > > whois -h whois.ripe.net dom.ain.de > > > > > > returning <handle>-DENIC, so i then follow with > > > > > > whois -h whois.ripe.net <handle>-DENIC > > > > > > i can only conclude, givem the first quoted paragraph above, that the data > > > must be manually entered in both databases or that ripe mirrors denic's > > > database. > > > > > Seems like we need a referal meganisme for nic-handles? > > You would need global nic-handles that somehow identify their database. > Unfortunately this does not work if there is no single handle namespace. All nic-hdls we are talking about seems to end in the name of their source: -RIPE, -IS, -DENIC (or -DE?) so in my opinion that makes them both unique and gives an easy way to build a referal meganism. The only handles that fails this are the internic hdls, but they have always been separate ... And we don't really want cross references for nic-hdls, although it might have the advantage of a single place to maintain your handle, but we want to extend the referal meganism in place for domains to work with handles as well. All IMHO. Regards, Andre > > Fortunately this isn't really a problem as I (we?) don't want handle cross > references. Such cross references only make sense if you want to achieve > that a single person has a unique handle in all databases. > > While a unique and single handle for a person is a nice looking idea it > simply does not work as maintainership of handles becomes more complex > with the increasing number of database maintainers involved. > > When the person data is stored together with the domain data the > handles are again only locally valid and a referral of the domain > also resolves the person data nicely. There is no need for more > complex mechanisms. > > BTW, those that really want cross references can translate whois > data into hypertext and use URLs to locate data on arbitrary servers. > > -- > i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 9652 330 > Xlink - Network Information Centre \/ fax: +49 721 9652 349 > Emmy-Noether-Strasse 9 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ > D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email: hostmaster at xlink.net > [ KPNQwest Germany GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe ] > [ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Koen Bertoen ]
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