[ncc-services-wg] Request for Feedback: Phasing Out Text-Based Email Request Forms

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:10:17PM +0200, Wilfried Woeber wrote:
> I haven't made up my mind yet, although the forms-based approach has some
> beauty for us, as it provides a standardised framwork for collecting input
> from our customers/members.
> 
> And while I certainly see the arguments from the NCC's end, I am wondering
> if it is really in the interst of the memebers and the RIR-LIR system at large,
> to save some money at the NCC and have all the members spend money individually
> to migrate to an API.

I hear you, but I wonder how many formal requests you send to RS every
year?  For us, with the end of IPv4, abandonment of IPv4 PI and IPv4 AW,
and the non-requirement to get IPv6 assignments approved, the number of
formal interactions with the NCC that go through the hostmaster robot
(= e-mail forms) has gone down to "a handful per year".

So I'm really wondering how many LIRs would be affected in a major way
by this change.

(Also I see this not only as "saving money", but more as "introducing
consistency".  I've had more than one fight with the HM robot in the past,
due to forms not in sync with the robot, or some fields being declared
mandatory by the robot while the docs say 'optional' etc, so I can see
really good reasons to junk this 20-year-old piece of software)

Gert Doering
        -- primary RIPE contact for a few LIRs
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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