[atlas] Atlas Anchor contact role accidentally cleaned (Was: Clean-up of unreferenced objects in the RIPE Database)

Hi Ondřej

To be fair we did not consider this use case in our implementation. However, as a quick fix: you can recreate your objects and they will not be deleted for the next 90 days.

In the meantime I want to take the opportunity to review the process for preventing deletion of objects. There (still) is an official process for this, but as you can see it's somewhat more complicated than it needs to be - at least imho:
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/white-pages/view

So, I would suggest that you actually don't try to follow that procedure for the time being, and I can keep you posted on the developments. I am confident that we can work something out with 90 days - but although I have an alternative in mind I will need to discuss it with various parties - including probably the db-wg before we can implement.

I hope this helps. Kind regards,

Tim Bruijnzeels






> On 02 Nov 2016, at 15:18, Ondřej Caletka <Ondrej.Caletka at cesnet.cz> wrote:
> 
> Dne 6.9.2016 v 15:32 Tim Bruijnzeels napsal(a):
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> In compliance with data protection rules and the desire to maintain a “clean” database, we plan to remove unreferenced objects from the RIPE Database. We have recently been working on an improved implementation, and we are now ready to re-start the process.
>> 
>> In order to be eligible for deletion, objects must have no incoming references (or be a person-maintainer or role-maintainer pair) and must have had no incoming references from any aut-num, domain, inet(6)num, route(6), as-set, filter-set, inet-rtr, peering-set, route-set, rtr-set, as-block, key-cert or irt object during the last 90 days.
> 
> Hello Tim, hello RIPE Atlas team,
> 
> I just found out that my RIPE Atlas Anchor contact role object CAAO-RIPE
> has been cleaned from the RIPE database. This object is registered as a
> RIPE Atlas Anchor contact in the RIPE Atlas systems.
> 
> Could you perhaps somehow undelete such role object? Would it be
> possible to prevent such clean up in the future?
> 
> Best regards,
> Ondřej Caletka
> CESNET
> 
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