<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues, The RIPE Database Working Group has asked the RIPE NCC to replace the “changed:” attribute in the RIPE Database with “created:” and “last-modified:”. We want to inform the wider community, in case you have any feedback you would like to share with the Database WG. Following discussions at RIPE 69, we met with the WG chairs and finalised an implementation plan consisting of three phases: 1) Introduce the new attributes “created:” and “last-modified:” 2) Make the "changed:" attribute optional 3) Deprecate the "changed:" attribute Details of this implementation plan can be found here: <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/tim/deprecating-the-changed-attribute-in-the-ripe-database" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/tim/deprecating-the-changed-attribute-in-the-ripe-database</a> We recently informed the Database WG that Phase 1 of this implementation had been deployed to the Release Candidate environment. We are planning to deploy this to the production environment on 28 April: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2015-March/004504.html" class="">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2015-March/004504.html</a> If you have any questions or comments, please raise them on the RIPE Database WG mailing list at <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net" class="">db-wg@ripe.net</a>>. Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC </body></html>