[ncc-services-wg] Re: [db-wg] Change to NIC handle usage in the RIPE Database

Denis,

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 13:25 +0200, Denis Walker wrote:
> This change does not affect automatically generated organisation names.
> But we would like to hear feedback on whether it makes sense to also
> have these map to organisations uniquely over time.

The organisation objects are required to be created with AUTO-n as their
identifier. IIRC, this was done to insure that they had no meaning,
other than as arbitrary database identifiers. They do use the name of
the organisation to pick some letters for the identifier, or you can
specify the letters to use, so it is not completely random. This use of
organisation name to get letters was done for aesthetic reasons, and
also as a nod to tradition.

Because of the AUTO-n requirement, it seems likely to me that the use of
old handles is even less of a problem than with person/role objects.

It is crazy that any identifier in the database is ever reused. Madness!

--
Shane