Re: how to proceed with changed:

Why not just use NIC/RIPE-handles in the changed field? As long as the

James Aldridge wrote: this covers only part of the functionality. Handles travel with persons when they change jobs. It would be too cumbersome to change all "changed:"-fields once a "changer" leaves the registry/company. There are ways to deal with this problem if only email addresses are used.

8601:1988, perhaps) would, IMHO, be useful although it should probably be added by the database software rather than by the user submitting the update. It could even be omitted as part of the database entry and just be returned in a (comment) line starting with '%'. It is meta-information anyway.

-Peter