[db-wg] Removing personal data from bulk output from the RIPE Database

(Apologies for breaking threading, I just subscribed to the list.)

In general, the proposal seems fine to me and I agree with its goals.

In preparing for my APWG presentation next week, I've been wanting to
find the answer to the question «how many IPv4 PA Assignments have been
registered between dates A and B?». I thought I could do this by
examining the inetnum database export - but that didn't work out, due to
the fact that all the "changed:" attributes gets rewritten to
"unread‌‌@ripe.net 20000101". So while I don't care about the e-mail
addresses, I'd need the dates to be left intact. Also, the current
algorithm folds all changed attributes into a single one. It's not clear
from the Labs article whether or not this practise will stop - I hope it
will.

Would it by any chance be possible to get a sneak preview of the new
inetnum dump, so that I could find the numbers I want before heading to
Dublin? If so that would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards,
Tore Anderson