[db-wg] Proposal to remove "referral-by" attribute in "mntner" object or make it optional

Dear Nigel,

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 03:30:36PM +0000, Nigel Titley wrote:
> Discussion on the db-wg mailing list has sometimes been difficult to
> kick start. As Denis says, we then tend to bring it up at the DB WG
> meeting at RIPE and raise an action on the RIPE NCC based on the
> discussion at that meeting.

I personally see no difference between online (db-wg@) and offline
(RIPE[0-9]+), and little value in regarding RIPE meetings as a "flag
day" of sorts. I'd want to avoid a loop from mailing-list to meeting
back to mailing-list due to community indecisiveness.  :-)

We can ask the RIPE NCC communications department to help engage our
community in conversations on this mailing-list. Maybe they can do a
tweet "Spring clean-up: Do you like or dislike the 'referral-by'
attribute? Have you ever used it? Voice your opinion on
db-wg at ripe.net!".

Already 6 people are involved, and importantly: with quite unanimous
sentiment. 

Why would we not try to reach consensus in the next four weeks? 

Kind regards,

Job