[db-wg] email's disappeared from RDAP output

Good Afternoon Ben,

This change was made as part of ​​1.109 release. We added that attribute into the redacted field 
and removed it from the RDAP entity.

Email is considered to be personal data, so we must be consistent between our APIs and keep 
it filtered in all of them. If an email address is returned, this is accounted agains a daily limit 
according to the Acceptable Use Policy <https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/ripe-database-acceptable-use-policy> , so your IP will get blocked if you request too many objects 
which have personal attributes like email.

We are open to discussion, so if there is an agreement in db-wg we will investigate how to include
personal data in the RDAP response.

Thanks
Miguel





> On 4 Jan 2024, at 17:39, Ben Cartwright-Cox via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I was just re-running some tests internally within bgp.tools and I've
> noticed that the RDAP responses from RIPE no longer include the email
> address of the person object. For example I used to (and expected) to
> get the email address in the object for
> https://rdap.db.ripe.net/entity/BC6775-RIPE, but it seems to have been
> removed from the output at some point.
> 
> That does not appear to be a way to log in to authenticate
> trustworthiness of RDAP  responses,  is there any other way to get
> this information?  I can see this information on the RIPE website  (
> https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=ripe&key=BC6775-RIPE&type=person
> ) but I do not want to scrape that, and this information is incredibly
> useful for helping users onboard ( with a trustworthy email address )
> to services like bgp.tools.
> 
> Is this an intended change? Have I done something silly? All of the above ;) ?
> 
> By looking at the release info I can see it was added in November (#1333)
> 
> Thanks
> Ben
> 
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