Hi Denis, > On 28 Jan 2021, at 19:37, denis walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Will > > I wasn't aware that the RIPE Atlas system/service had any reliance on > objects in the RIPE Database. Maybe Robert can elaborate more on this? > > There are only 4 PERSON objects in the RIPE Database that reference > the Whitepages ORGANISATION object. None of these make any reference > in remarks to RIPE Atlas. So clearly no one is using the old > Whitepages service for RIPE Atlas. There is 1 ROLE object in the > database that does refer to RIPE Atlas, CAAO-RIPE. This object was > created in 2014 and was recently modified. But it is not referenced > anywhere...so it should have been automatically deleted after 90 days. > Maybe Ed can look at why this object still exists in the database? >
There is an exclude list for the cleanup unreferenced objects job, and CAAO-RIPE is excluded, so it will never be deleted. The DB team maintains this list and will exclude an object on request. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC
