[db-wg] last-modified:, a succesor to changed:

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 05:22:15PM +0200, Piotr Strzyzewski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:02:12PM +0200, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> > In iks.lists.ripe.db, you wrote:
> > > not for others. So if it is kept as optional, those users who might 
> > > prefer to clean the RIPE Database of many email addresses in possibly 
> > > tens of thousands of objects will basically have to do it themselves.
> > 
> > How about a button in the LIR portal?
> > "Remove all changed lines from all objects -i mnt-by"?
> 
> +1
> 
> Of course, this still leave us with some corner cases like person
> objects without any maintainer.

I think this approach would be quite a clutch with no benefits. 

Aside from 'nostalgia' are there any operational reasons not to
deprecate the "changed:" attribute? 

Keeping entirely redundant attributes for the sake of keeping them, 
complicates database operations & usage. 

Kind regards,

Job