[db-wg] RIPE Database: Cleaning-up Organisation Names in "descr:"

Peter Hessler wrote:
> What should the WG do, then?  Ask the NCC to write new code?  Update the
> data-model?

the code is new; the data model has it roots around 1992 (ripe-50) and
can't be changed without causing serious disruption to data consumers,
which would mean retooling pretty much anything ever built to ingest
ripedb objects.  There are a lot of db info consumers:

https://www.ripe.net/analyse/statistics/ripe-database/ripedb-queries

It works well enough that as a data consumer, I don't particularly need
to see massive changes to it.  It could be revolutionised and that might
be interesting, but drastically changing the data model is a lot of work
for all parties.

Nick