<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176761"><span>Hi Alexander</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176771"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176770"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176838">You may well be right but duplicated personal data in a public database for 'convenience' is probably not acceptable.</span></div><div><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176838"><br></span></div><div><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176838">cheers</span></div><div><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176838">denis</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176838">co-chair DB-WG</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176762"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176766" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176765"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176764"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176763"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176767" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176840" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alexander Stranzky via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> db-wg@ripe.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 20 September 2018, 14:57<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [db-wg] PERSON objects in the RIPE Database<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176768"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176769">On 20/09/2018 15:04, denis walker via db-wg wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176784">> Colleagues,<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176785">><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176786">> I will start with a blunt question, then give some arguments for my<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176872">> concern. In May the RIPE NCC told me there are?more than 2 million<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176869">> PERSON objects in the RIPE Database. That is almost 25% of the objects<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176871">> in the database. Who are these people and why do we hold so much<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176870">> personal data?<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176873"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176800">Hello,<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176788"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176874">I suspect that many of these objects are old (pre-API) and/or<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1537195136705_176875">duplicates. Before RIPE had a REST API (and I can't tell how many ISPs<br></div><div dir="ltr">still use emails to create their resources) automatically fetching,<br></div><div dir="ltr">linking, and updating a RIPE object was a pain (as is the current<br></div><div dir="ltr">situation with APNIC) and likely involved someone to create the email<br></div><div dir="ltr">personally. Hence going the easy route--making new entries every time.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,<br></div><div dir="ltr">Alexander Stranzky<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">velia.net Internetdienste GmbH * Hessen-Homburg-Platz 1 * 63452 Hanau<br></div><div dir="ltr">Geschäftsführer: Franz G. Köhler, Arek Akilli * AG Hanau * HRB 7588<br></div><div dir="ltr">Tel: +49 6181 1898119 * <a href="http://www.velia.net/" target="_blank">http://www.velia.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>