<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 17:03, denis walker via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Gert<br>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 16:05, Gert Doering <<a href="mailto:gert@space.net" target="_blank">gert@space.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:55:26PM +0100, denis walker via db-wg wrote:<br>
> > This new anti-spam measure is a convenient point to reflect on how one<br>
> > part of the RIPE Database is used. Notifications are just one part of<br>
> > an audit system. Many other parts are missing. To be sending out 30k<br>
> > emails a day to hundreds of thousands of email addresses stored in a<br>
> > public database as part of an incomplete audit system has to stop.<br>
> > Notification emails on this scale are a relic of the past.<br>
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> Just as a counterpoint, I do like my notification e-mails. Push<br>
> notification in case I do need to care, and *only then*.<br>
><br>
> And I totally dislike having to actually look into some sort of<br>
> portal / web UI "is there anything I should be aware of?", because<br>
> this sort of polling is eating brain cycles for no good.<br>
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But looking through lots of email notifications about changes that you<br>
already know about, because you did them, and maybe in the middle is a<br>
notification of an attempted security breach that failed on<br>
authentication (that you may miss), doesn't that also eat up brain<br>
cycles?<br>
<br>
So how about a compromise. A full audit trail of all details of all<br>
changes to all your data available by default to designated people<br>
through your portal account. Plus a daily email summarising all the<br>
changes also sent to people whose email addresses are set up in the<br>
portal account. So still no notif email addresses needed all across<br>
the database. This could even be done per maintainer.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>and of course this would be optional to reduce emails sent.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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cheers<br>
denis<br>
co-chair DB-WG<br>
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> (Having a good audit trail is fine, in case I know I'm looking for<br>
> something - but I do just want to see "something under my administration<br>
> has changed", in case I do not yet know I should be looking)<br>
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