[db-wg] Clear up of old issues - Whiepages

Colleagues

There has been no objection to deprecating the Whitepages. The chairs
therefore ask the RIPE NCC to contact the 4 people still using it and
make alternative arrangements for them. Then they can remove the
Whitepages functionality from the database. (One old issue finally
resolved...)

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG

On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 15:55, denis walker <ripedenis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Colleagues
>
> The co-chairs recently had a zoom meeting with the RIPE NCC. One of
> the things we discussed was clearing up a number of old issues. We
> need to clear the deck and move on with new and perhaps more relevant
> issues. We will address a number of issues for the last time. In some
> cases the chairs will make a recommendation. As these are quite old
> issues, we will take silence as consensus for the chair's
> recommendation.
>
> The first issue is Whitepages. This is a feature from about 10+ years
> ago. It was intended to preserve the PERSON object in the RIPE
> Database and protect it from automatic deletion if it is not
> referenced from any operational data. It was to use the RIPE Database
> as a phone book for well known people in the industry who may not be
> resource holders. There are many other ways to provide such contact
> details today. It was only ever used by a handful of people. The RIPE
> NCC now has other ways to preserve ROLE objects if needed, for example
> if used by RIPE Atlas users.
>
> The chairs recommend removing this feature from the RIPE Database. If
> you need a ROLE object to be preserved, contact ripe-dbm at ripe.net to
> discuss.
>
> cheers
> denis
> co-chair DB-WG