[ncc-services-wg] Improving Data Quality on the FTP Site

Dear all,

As a consumer of this data, I have a question regarding the legitimately
closed (no test nor renamed) LIRs in file.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Laura Cobley <laura at ripe.net> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we
> would like to update a file within the FTP site:
>
> ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
>
> According to our records, this file should contain a **list of allocated
> address space held by the RIPE NCC membership**. However, in addition to
> the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to
> obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for
> example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have
> subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice.
>
> We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows **only
> allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership**. Other than
> removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be
> changed.
>
>
Just to make it clear: does this mean the file will just include active
LIRs and their allocations, effectively excluding all sort of closed LIRs?


> We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March,
> 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or
> sent to <ncc at ripe.net> before then.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Laura Cobley
> RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
>
>
Thanks in advance and have a nice day,

Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina Cazenave
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