Colleagues There has been no objection to deprecating the Whitepages. The chairs therefore ask the RIPE NCC to contact the 4 people still using it and make alternative arrangements for them. Then they can remove the Whitepages functionality from the database. (One old issue finally resolved...)
cheers denis co-chair DB-WG On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 15:55, denis walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Colleagues > > The co-chairs recently had a zoom meeting with the RIPE NCC. One of > the things we discussed was clearing up a number of old issues. We > need to clear the deck and move on with new and perhaps more relevant > issues. We will address a number of issues for the last time. In some > cases the chairs will make a recommendation. As these are quite old > issues, we will take silence as consensus for the chair's > recommendation. > > The first issue is Whitepages. This is a feature from about 10+ years > ago. It was intended to preserve the PERSON object in the RIPE > Database and protect it from automatic deletion if it is not > referenced from any operational data. It was to use the RIPE Database > as a phone book for well known people in the industry who may not be > resource holders. There are many other ways to provide such contact > details today. It was only ever used by a handful of people. The RIPE > NCC now has other ways to preserve ROLE objects if needed, for example > if used by RIPE Atlas users. > > The chairs recommend removing this feature from the RIPE Database. If > you need a ROLE object to be preserved, contact [email protected] to > discuss. > > cheers > denis > co-chair DB-WG -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/db-wg
