[routing-wg] 2018-06 New Policy Proposal (RIPE NCC IRR Database Non-Authoritative Route Object Clean-up)

Dear Ronald,

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:41:09PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <E1gAaoe-0004fx-GZ at www-apps-1.ripe.net>,  Marco Schmidt
> <mschmidt at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> >https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2018-06
> 
> 2) Please append the following additional sentence to section 2.0:
> 
>         A permanent record of all route objects deleted from the
>         RIPE IRR as a result of this policy, together with copies of
>         all then-current referenced database objects, at the time of
>         the deletion will be maintained and published by RIPE NCC,
>         either via a simple plain text web page or as plain text
>         provided to the public via some other means (e.g. a traditional
>         port 43 WHOIS service),
> 
>    (I believe that all details relating to this clean-up should be
>    preserved for posterity and should be easily accessible to both
>    current and future researchers and historians.)

In any case I recommend you download a copy of
https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe-nonauth.db.gz which contains all
the RIPE-NONAUTH data. Data can only be modified or deleted, no new data
can be added to the RIPE-NONAUTH dataset.

I'd personally don't really see a need to task the RIPE NCC to preserve
this data forever, but I'm curious to know what others think.

Kind regards,

Job