Hi Timothy, Timothy Lowe wrote:
One of our members has asked the RIPE NCC to provide a test facility for the RIPE NCC ticket robot.
I don't have any particular view here as I don't have to deal with the robot these days. Having said that, DENIC, the german ccTLD registry, has a test registry system ready for its members for more than x; x > 3 years now. And in the absence of any negative feedback I consider it (happily) welcome by them. The real difference I'd see is that DENIC's robot is really an automat with no human intervention - when the NCC's ticket robot by its very nature requires that (aka. manpower). But I might be wrong here, see first para. So for the time being some of the comments here hold somewhat true for me - is there an estimation of the additional workload on the IP Resource Analysts to process these test tickets? Even by only alternately approving and rejecting every single one of them? But maybe even this human intervention can be automated in the test system on a per LIR basis then? Cheers, Carsten