Dear DB WG members, there currently exists a somewhat tricky deadlock situation in updating mntner objects. Envision the following object: mntner: XOO-MNT admin-c: XOO-RIPE upd-to: kieber@xoo.net auth: PGPKEY-B490673F # Ulf Kieber auth: PGPKEY-XXXXXXXX # Somebody Else mnt-by: XOO-MNT source: RIPE Now, XOO is a large, distributed organisation and Someone Else eventually starts adding a bunch of auth: SSO # Filtered None of those SSO accounts is certainly mine. How am I going to update this mntner object without removing those SSO accounts? The issue here is: There is no way of retrieving the SSO account information from the mntner object without an SSO auth on it. Proposal: Add a way to retrieve mntner objects from the DB by encrypted mail (public key PGPKEY-B490673F is already in the database). PS: Mail updates may seem arcane to some, but I've done registry mergers of some 20000 object registries pretty fast that way. Regards, -- Ulf Kieber