Removal of selected sets of contact information from the RIPE Database

At 07:02 +0200 22/8/01, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
>
>Some objects you may find were added 10 years ago when there was no rule
>for a maintainer for person objects.  These objects may still be valid and
>referenced.  I wonder how many people here remember dfk at cwi.nl in changed
>tags from 1990? :-)

Referenced objects will not be deleted. However, we use the term 
"reference" as reference by nic handle or name in admin-c and tech-c

Changed lines are not real references to person objects because they 
just have an email address, not a reference to a person object. 
Changed lines are for the user's internal tracking and dates are used 
by some hostmaster procedures but they don't require data consistency 
within the database.

In general, no database user should use the changed lines as a source 
of contact information.

Hope this cleared any confusion.

Joao Damas
RIPE NCC

>
>You are right that you need to protect against spammers.  And yes, you
>want to split the 2.8M deletions into something of value.  How about
>taking the last few "changed" tags, eliminate those with ripe.net
>references, and then create individual files with the objects deleted
>sorted by the change tag info.  Protect them by user/pswd and send it only
>to the person listed in the changed tag.
>
>-Hank

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