in-addr.arpa zone data in RIPE database

    Questions:
	    Should we automatically make the suggested changes in the
    	    RIPE database?
No.
    
    	    Or should we send mail to the technical contacts asking them
    	    to change things?
Yes.
    
    	    We have asked the NIC accept change notices from us, so that
    	    registration of reverse servers in the database would be
    	    enough to get them into the DNS. Is this desirable?
NO!!

These actions would bring RIPE on the edge of interfering
with the responsabilities of the authoritative persons for
a given zone, be it for "forward" or reverse mapping. The
best RIPE can do is to send a notification to the authority
of a given zone in case of obvious *errors*, NOT if servers
are missing in the DB, since there may be good reason why
they are "missing". Suppose I would be in foo.XX and I would
have a large network with, say, 10 internal and 2 external
nameservers for my domain; if I would loose connectivity to
the outside world, those 10 internal nameservers would be
unreachable and it would be pointless to have nameservers
all over the Internet try to query them all. Therefore I
would have only, say, 2 internal and the 2 external servers
listed for foo.XX in the XX zone file and in the RIPE DB
and I would absolutely not appreciate it if RIPE would send
me time and again a notification that there are more servers
for foo.XX than actually listed in the XX zone or the DB.


	Piet