[db-wg] Deprecation of whitepages

Hi Will

I wasn't aware that the RIPE Atlas system/service had any reliance on
objects in the RIPE Database. Maybe Robert can elaborate more on this?

There are only 4 PERSON objects in the RIPE Database that reference
the Whitepages ORGANISATION object. None of these make any reference
in remarks to RIPE Atlas. So clearly no one is using the old
Whitepages service for RIPE Atlas. There is 1 ROLE object in the
database that does refer to RIPE Atlas, CAAO-RIPE. This object was
created in 2014 and was recently modified. But it is not referenced
anywhere...so it should have been automatically deleted after 90 days.
Maybe Ed can look at why this object still exists in the database?

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG


On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 16:45, Will Scott via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
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> If the whitepages are removed, what is the recommended path
> for maintiners of Atlas nodes?
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> The thread at
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2016-November/003091.html
> suggests that a person/role created in the DB which are used to
> maintain atlas nodes will be locked and then removed unless
> it either owns resources, or is in the whitepages.
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> --Will
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