RIPE Handle document

>RIPE Handle
>
>Internet handles issued by the RIPE NCC are called RIPE handles.
>The purpose of a RIPE handle is to uniquely identify a person in the
>RIPE network management database and other related databases that
>choose to use it.

so we manufacture Internet Handles!

>...
>All persons in the RIPE database must have an Internet handle.
>

agreed.

>Every person in any of the databases keeping contact information
>should only use Internet handle.

sure enough, probably this isn't telling me what was intended?

>
>Assignment
>...
>It should be noted that the RIPE NCC only issues RIPE handles and
>not other Internet handles.

this is in contradiction to the first assumption!???
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I think the wording, and maybe even the thinking, has to be made a little bit
clearer (at least to me :-)

I'm reading the proposal to mean the following:

- On a global scale, we need unique handles (Internet Handles).
- InterNIC doesn't provide them for use by Regional Registries
- There is an agreement that Internet Handles are manufactured in a
  distributed way by appending the Regional Registry code
- It doesn' matter from where I get the handle, it is an Intenet Handle that
  is globally unique and valid.
  (ie. I can get my person object registered in any database other than the
   RIPE-DB with my RIPE-assigned Internet Handle) 	**correct??
- we have to get this going by
  a) converting all existing handles, which have by definition been assigned
     by the InterNIC into the -INIC format/syntax
  b) assign -RIPE format/syntax handles for all the others in the RIPE-DB
- to keep it going we refuse person objects, that do neither come with an
  Internet Handle, nor request assignment by the agreed string of "assign"

Anything wrong with this?

Wilfried (WW144-INIC :-)