Hi there!
"Siegfried Langenbach" <svl@nrw.net> writes:
why reuse it at all? siegfried
At the time of the design there was concern that the handles would get unconveniently long. Maybe the trade-off between the consistency problems this causes and a conveninent user interface should be re-evaluated.
Currently, there is another issue why reuse should be possible: To correct a misspelled person name, the only way is to delete the person object an to immediately recreate ist, reusing the handle. Perhaps a good idea would be, not to issue "used" handles in the AUTO-n process. (Which I thought would not happen, but obviously it does sometimes.) Greetings from Germany, Christian Halbe. Product Engineering UUNET Deutschland GmbH Tel. +49 231 972 00 Emil-Figge-Strasse 80 Fax. +49 231 972 1177 D-44227 Dortmund, Germany chh@de.uu.net URL: http://www.de.uu.net Mit freundlichen Gruessen UUNET Deutschland GmbH Christian Halbe Internet Koordinator NIC & DNS Team UUNET Deutschland GmbH Tel. +49 231 972 00 Emil-Figge-Strasse 80 Fax. +49 231 972 1177 44227 Dortmund, Germany Christian.Halbe@de.uu.net URL: http://www.de.uu.net