[db-wg] Historical data and deleted objects

Dear Bengt

During the RIPE NCC presentation in the DB WG session at RIPE 67 I 
mentioned that we don't currently provide historical data for deleted 
objects. Also for objects that have been deleted and re-created, we only 
provide historical data back to the last re-creation date. This was an 
arbitrary decision when we implemented the --list-versions and 
--show-version query options.

There was no discussion or agreement on taking this any further at RIPE 
67 or since on the mailing list. If the community would like us to 
provide this service, we can add this to our feature list for a future 
release of the RIPE Database software.

These query options provide the incremental changes to individual 
objects over time. RIPEstat also provides historical data based on 
snapshots of the RIPE Database. This is the same data but from a 
different perspective. This may also be of interest to you.

Regards
Denis Walker
Business Analyst
RIPE NCC Database Team

On 26/11/2013 15:26, Bengt Gördén wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We had some talk about historical data on RIPE67 and I think we agreed
> on the possibility of retrieving deleted history too. Is there any
> progress on this?
>
> regards,
>