Deletion of German domain objects

> > Would be the nic-hdl's in the RIPE-DB which has
> > only a reference to an german domain object mark as
> > "NEVER_REFD" now?
>
>  Yes, they will be marked as NEVER_REFD. We didn't change
> anything in the consistency project regarding to .de
> domain deletions. Even we did change something, since
> person objects will be created in RIPE whois db for a couple
> of months more, and since we won't have the new .de domains,
> our changes would be void.

I'm sorry, but I have a hard time comprehending the above.

I have one brief question which may serve to clarify this issue:
Is there a good reason to keep person objects in the RIPE
database when they are no longer referenced by any other object
in the database?  I would have thought that the answer to that
would be a resounding "no", so I am a little more than puzzled by
the above conversation.


- Håvard