[db-wg] Deprecation of DBConstat service

On 28/06/2012 14:44, Denis Walker wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The RIPE NCC announced last week an intention to deprecate the DBConstat
> service.
>
> The service will be de-commisioned at the end of next week. If anyone
> has any concerns about this service, please reply to the mailing list
> within the week.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis Walker
> Business Analyst
> RIPE NCC Database Group
>
>
> On 21/06/12:26 3:20 PM, Denis Walker wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> The RIPE NCC has carried out a thorough review of DBConstat, a service
>> to check consistency of data in the RIPE Database and produce
>> statistics. It was written over ten years ago and has changed little
>> over that period. The current software is unmaintainable now. The
>> results of this review are published on RIPE Labs:
>> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/review-of-dbconstat
>>
>> The review showed that this service produces a series of almost flat
>> line graphs and provides an interactive service barely used by anyone
>> and resulting in no significant improvement in data quality in the RIPE
>> Database.
>>
>> The RIPE NCC believes this is not the way to address the few outstanding
>> inconsistencies reported by this service. We therefore intend to
>> deprecate this service, then investigate and address the remaining
>> inconsistencies using other methods, as discussed in the article on RIPE
>> Labs.
>>
>> If anyone has any concerns about this service, please reply to the
>> mailing list within the next two weeks.
>>
We haven't had any response. If you want to keep DBConstat then you have 
just a few more hours to note the fact.

Nigel
DB-WG Co-chair