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

Dear Iñigo,

Thank you for your question and apologies for the delay in getting back
to you.

The file will show all allocated address space, regardless of whether it
is held in an active or a closed RIPE NCC member account. However, when
closing member accounts, we follow the procedures outlined in ripe-578
and deregister the address space. Some allocations that are pending
removal may temporarily appear in the file. These will disappear once
the relevant administrative processes are complete.

The full procedure is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-578

I hope this answers your question.

Kind regards,

Laura Cobley
RIPE NCC


On 3/13/13 10:22 AM, Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina wrote:
> 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
>