[ncc-services-wg] Re: [db-wg] "referral-by:" attribute

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:54:48PM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 12:37 +0200, Denis Walker wrote:
> > If we make it optional now, although it is still in the RPSL definition,
> > it can be completely ignored. Does anyone have any strong views on this
> > either way?
> 
> I'd actually suggest going further, and getting rid of it completely.
> 
> I think the change could be done so that "referral-by:" attributes would
> be automatically removed when an addition or update was made, so that
> people don't have to change their software when creating maintainer
> objects. In theory this warning could be converted to an error at some
> point in the future, but I don't think it would actually ever be
> necessary.

I agree with that point of view.

Piotr

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