Interaction is fine. But RIPE stepping into someone else's authority is quite something different! I don't see any problem with that as long as we (european networking people) agree to send update to the RIPE-NCC instead of sending them to the NIC. RIPE-DB and DNS are entirely different objects.
Yes, indeed. Nonetheless I think it would be extremely useful for network managers in Europe to send their DNS updates to the RIPE-NCC only, knowing that they interface the NIC about the DNS root servers updates. Daniel, you can poll RIPErs on this, can you?
I would like RIPE to notify me *in some cases* about discrepancies between my entries in the RIPE-DB and my DNS entries, but I do *NOT* want RIPE to step into my authority by asking or telling the NIC to change *MY* DNS info because they found discrepancies: I may well have good reason why those discrepancies exist. If someone in Europe likes to have discrepancies, for whatever reason, he can certainly tell to RIPE-NCC: please do not forward my updates to the NIC!
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