Dear Michael van Elst, (ripe-list is removed from the cc:) Michael van Elst wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:50:10PM +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
Dear all,
(apologies for duplicates)
This message is a reminder of the ongoing process of removal of unreferenced contact information from the RIPE Database.
We have updated the web page http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/orphaned.html with a more up to date list of maintainer objects relevant to this process.
The page says:
| 3.Due to the nature and the size of the data set involved, the RIPE NCC can | not publish a list of all the objects affected.
and suggests to poll the status of the entries with a usual whois client.
Due to the nature and size of the data set involved this requires a million queries to the RIPE database to avoid ambiguities with the very very likeley event of rapidly reassigned handles.
Could you please explain the problem? The proposed protection mechanism with the RIP-NCC-PN-NONE-MNT is targeted only at individuals who have unreferenced and unmaintained person objects and want to protect their objects in the database. It is not supposed to be used by a maintainer from the published list.
I suggest to create a list of involved entries and pass it to the maintainer in question.
-- i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 9652 330 Xlink - Network Information Centre \/ fax: +49 721 9652 349 Emmy-Noether-Strasse 9 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email: hostmaster@xlink.net [ KPNQwest Germany GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe ] [ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Peter Dressler ]
Regards, Andrei Robachevsky DB Group Manager RIPE NCC