[db-wg] "status:" attribute values in the RIPE database

Dear DB-WG,

Please see my comment below, inline...

Le mercredi 4 août 2021, denis walker <ripedenis at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi
>
> Taking my co-chair hat off, my personal view is, yes it is a bad idea
> to add a remark. This has been done many times in the past where
> objects have been modified as part of an agreed update. Some of these
> remarks have never been removed. They have been there for over 10
> years. Objects then get bloated with multiple remarks about several
> updates. It just becomes unnecessary clutter. If the update has been
> well announced on the mailing list, maintainers have been notified of
> the modification and it shows in the object history then I don't think
> a remark is needed as well.
>
>
Thanks for your explanation, dear Denis.

...now, i understand that the version history is
sufficient to both 'keep' the change and to get the
 interested users, of the whois service, informed
about it existence.

Shalom,
--sb.



> cheers
> denis
>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 16:06, Sylvain Baya <abscoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear DB-WG,
> >
> > Le mer. 28 juil. 2021 à 4:15 PM, Edward Shryane via db-wg <
> db-wg at ripe.net> a écrit :
> >>
> >> Dear Colleagues,
> >>
> >
> > Hi Edward,
> > Thanks for your notification, brother.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks to the co-chairs for declaring a consensus, the DB team will
> start working on the implementation.
> >>
> >> The implementation plan consists of two parts:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> As only the case of the "status:" value is changed, the objects remain
> syntactically the same. We will not send notification emails to maintainers
> for the change, apart from notifying the db-wg. The "last-modified:" value
> will not change, but a new object version will be created (so the change
> will be visible in the version history).
> >
> >
> >
> > ...ok, cool!
> > Question, please: is it a bad idea to add a
> >  comment as in "remarks:" attribute?
> >
> > Shalom,
> > --sb.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> All changes will be visible in NRTM as the objects are updated. The
> change can be considered a NOOP.
> >>
> >> All changes will be visible in that night's database dump and split
> files.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> Please let me know if you have any questions.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Ed Shryane
> >> RIPE NCC
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> [...]
> >> >>
> >>
>


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