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

Hi Gert,

> On 5 Jan 2024, at 15:36, Gert Doering via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Miguel Herran via db-wg wrote:
>> I am sorry to say that currently ???no??? there is no any option to return the personal data in RDAP. We want to be consistent across the interfaces so since the beginning returning email there was inconsistent and we don???t want to block users due to inadvertently reaching the daily limit.
> 
> whois always had the corresponding options, so unilateraly breaking this
> for RDAP without prior discussion with the WG (at least I did not see
> anything) might not have been such a good plan after all...
> 

This change was made to fix a bug in RDAP where e-mail was returned without any daily limit accounting. We removed e-mail to avoid blocking clients querying for entities (as RDAP does not give a client options for filtering responses, the server must decide what to send).

This change was documented in the Whois 1.109 release notes:
"Removed organisation "e-mail" from RDAP to match Whois and added to redaction list (#1333)"

I also included it in my operational update in the DB-WG session at RIPE87.

We can always make improvements to the release process to be clearer and more transparent. For example, we can include more detail on each change.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC