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

We certainly could on this one, where we've got some engagement with the community. My comment was a reply to Martin's question, way back in this thread, about what do we do when we get no engagement from the community.

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: Job Snijders [mailto:job.snijders at hibernianetworks.com] 
Sent: 17 March 2014 17:13
To: Nigel Titley
Cc: Denis Walker; Martin Tõnusoo; db-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [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