[db-wg] Historical data and deleted objects

2013-11-28 11:31, Denis Walker skrev:
> 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. 


I must have spoken to someone else, or maybe it was just me myself and I 
having a late night meeting :). Anyway, thanks for the clarification.



> 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.
>

Yes, please implement this. I/we (se.resilans) would be very interested 
in this. I was told that the data is there, it's just not exposed. Which 
objects could potentially be exposed? Right now I'm searching for 
inetnum and inet6num but aut-num, route etc would also be interesting.


> 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.
>


Thanks. I've been looking into this. It's good data too.

regards,


/bengan




> 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,
>>
>


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Bengt Gördén
Resilans AB