[db-wg] Weirdness in DB files

Hi Cynthia,

Thanks for you email.

We have investigated, of 1.7M lines in the aut-num split file, the last tag appears after 1.3M lines. This is because not all aut-num objects contain tags.
I confirm that split files are well formed and no tags are missing.

There are currently 22997 out of 36481 autumn objects in split file for which tag information is available.
Also tagging information is available for roughly 63% of ‘ASSIGNED' autumn objects.

We released the tag beta feature  in 2013 but stopped automatically updating the tags some time later. 
So all the tags that are present in split files are automatically generated during that time period and objects created/updated after that have the tags information missing in split files.

We need to ask the community whether we resume the tagging of objects or remove the functionality all together.

Is tagging information is useful for you? We can put forward a case to the community for resuming this functionality.

Regards,
Mahesh
RIPE NCC

> On 17 Dec 2020, at 09:27, Edward Shryane via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Cynthia,
> 
> The DB team will investigate further and let you know.
> 
> Regards
> Ed Shryane
> RIPE NCC
> 
> 
>> On 17 Dec 2020, at 03:49, Cynthia Revström via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net <mailto:db-wg at ripe.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi DB-WG,
>> 
>> I just noticed that the (at the time of writing, serial 49363913) latest aut-num split db file (possibly elsewhere too) sort of just seems to break at some point.
>> 
>> The lines like below simply stop appearing:
>> 
>> % Tags relating to 'AS3333'
>> % RIPE-REGISTRY-RESOURCE
>> 
>> Here's a section where you can see it happening: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bitcynth/d81688c6b7587e0179d55b8324535ff4/raw/57fcf2829967c0a9c1039180b2fd3e2a2cbb7e09/ripedb.txt <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bitcynth/d81688c6b7587e0179d55b8324535ff4/raw/57fcf2829967c0a9c1039180b2fd3e2a2cbb7e09/ripedb.txt>
>> 
>> Any clue why this is occurring? or is it just a bug?
>> 
>> - Cynthia
> 

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