Whois data cleanup, Sanjaya, APNIC Sec.

Synopsis

The conversion of the APNIC whois service to RPSL required a large 
amount of historical data to be imported en masse. APNIC Secretariat 
has undertaken a detailed analysis of the data, and identified over 
25,000 entries which are either no longer needed, or have format 
problems. The APNIC Secretariat proposes a mechanism to identify and 
fix these problems, with membership review.

This activity is of increasing importance as early registration transfers 
are undertaken, since some of the data currently in our whois database 
overlaps with records we need to import from ARIN. It also improves our 
ability to manage global routing processes, by removing records which 
conflict with other organizations routing declarations.