26 Jul
1993
26 Jul
'93
1:05 p.m.
One of the ideas we talked about was to go to a structure like
NIC-XY999 (derived from the current NIC-Handles by prepending NIC-) RIPE-XY999 (newly assigned within the RIPE community) ... Or should the name of the field distinguish between RIPE and NIC handles - ie the person object can have two fields, nic-hdl: and ripe-hdl: to cope with people who end up with a handle of each type.
Please remember that there are more than 2 NIC's handing out handles and there will likely be more in the future. JPNIC (nic.ad.jp) currently does so, as will (I suspect) the APNIC. Granted, it is unlikely a person will be in more than a couple... -drc