[db-wg] Re: [ncc-services-wg] Clean up of unreferenced person/role objects
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Sascha Lenz
slz at baycix.de
Sat Apr 21 01:35:12 CEST 2007
Denis Walker schrieb: > Introduction > ------------ > > According to our database consistency statistics program (dbconstat [1]) we > currently have 460,573 unreferenced person/role objects [2]. Some of these > may be maintained, but are still unreferenced. Any personal data not > referenced by Internet resources do not fit within the purpose of the RIPE > Database. They should not be stored in the RIPE Database beyond a reasonable > 'work in progress' period. [...] so, my 0.02EUR: unreferenced person/role objects should not stay in the RIPE whois db forever and should been cleaned up on a regular basis, i agree since 2001 :-) I don't really know how that vast amount of useless(?) data affects the database operation nowadays (lookup/update times, mirror synchronization , databse sizes ect.), if at all with the current database machines, but the issue is more general. It just makes no real sense to keep them in there. > One time bulk cleanup procedure > ------------------------------- [...] But like some other people i'm not really happy about the "no e-mail notification" thing. Not even for the one-time procedure. I really really would like to have at least the regular update/delete-notificiations. It's just a bad thing to delete something without notifying the "owner". I wouldn't like that to happen to my objects - probably i keep one old Internic person object i copied to the RIPE db some decades ago alive but unreferenced since it's without the xyz-RIPE tag and i don't like to really use it anymore but .... at least i'd like to know if it gets deleted and the WHY in the delete: reason filed. Bottom line: If it's agreed on that it's not possible for the RIPE NCC to send out the notifications for whatever reason, i'd actually rather like to keep the objects there - or take smaller steps so it IS possible to send out notifications (hey, it took so long to re-activate that 'project', so it can't be that time-critical ;-). -- ======================================================================== = Sascha Lenz SLZ-RIPE slz at baycix.de = = Network Operations = = BayCIX GmbH, Landshut * PGP public Key on demand * = ========================================================================
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