[ncc-services-wg] NCC service request - ticket robot test facility

Hi Timothy,

Timothy Lowe wrote:
> One of our members has asked the RIPE NCC to
> provide a test facility for the RIPE NCC ticket robot.

I don't have any particular view here as I don't have to deal with the 
robot these days.

Having said that, DENIC, the german ccTLD registry, has a test registry 
system ready for its members for more than x; x > 3 years now. And in 
the absence of any negative feedback I consider it (happily) welcome by 
them.

The real difference I'd see is that DENIC's robot is really an automat 
with no human intervention - when the NCC's ticket robot by its very 
nature requires that (aka. manpower). But I might be wrong here, see 
first para.

So for the time being some of the comments here hold somewhat true for 
me - is there an estimation of the additional workload on the IP 
Resource Analysts to process these test tickets? Even by only 
alternately approving and rejecting every single one of them? But maybe 
even this human intervention can be automated in the test system on a 
per LIR basis then?

Cheers,

	Carsten