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Denis Walker
denis at ripe.net
Wed May 11 12:12:16 CEST 2005
Hey Olaf my literary skills are superb when it comes to writing some blurb but you are right I was employed for writing C functions void I am sure you will all be happy to know I write better C code than poetry :) cheers denis Olaf M. Kolkman wrote: >>Note the hierarchical naming convention for poetic-form objects, all verse > > > I have a few maintenance questions. > > Although my colleagues are technically competent, they have > not been hired for their literary skills(*). So although the RIPE DB > staff will technically maintain the poetic-form: we still need a > mechanism to ensure the quality of the "poetic-form" objects. > > Will RIPE NCC staff need to contact a secret cabal for quality > control? Alternatively, will we skip quality control and act on first > come first served (serious security considerations: culprits might > specify a Haiku in the form of a Dada poem)? Or should a poetic-form > first be discussed by the db-wg? > > I'd settle for the first option, a secret cabal... I may just know an > institution that could perform this task. > > > The classification scheme may also need some work. How do we classify > the different forms? Would the Aphorism have its own class or is it a > subclass of PROSE? > > In absence of the review process. Hereby a new proposal > > poetic-form: PROSE-APHORISM > descr: A database entry to be remembered by > admin-c: OK65-RIPE > tech-c: OK65-RIPE > mnt-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT > > and > > poetic-form: VERSE-HAIKU > descr: The haiku object > descr: only seven syllables > descr: in its density > admin-c: OK65-RIPE > tech-c: OK65-RIPE > mnt-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT > > > -- Olaf > > (*) I am sure I lost credit with my colleagues with this remark but > these are matters of high public interest. > > ---------------------------------| Olaf M. Kolkman > ---------------------------------| RIPE NCC
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