[ncc-services-wg] Re: [db-wg] "referral-by:" attribute
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Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet
Woeber at CC.UniVie.ac.at
Tue Jun 8 16:55:45 CEST 2010
Shane Kerr wrote: > Denis, > > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 12:37 +0200, Denis Walker wrote: > >>If we make it optional now, although it is still in the RPSL definition, >>it can be completely ignored. Does anyone have any strong views on this >>either way? > > > I'd actually suggest going further, and getting rid of it completely. If it doesn't dere a purpose any longer, yes, I agree. > I think the change could be done so that "referral-by:" attributes would > be automatically removed when an addition or update was made, so that > people don't have to change their software when creating maintainer > objects. In theory this warning could be converted to an error at some > point in the future, but I don't think it would actually ever be > necessary. But I don't beliee in messing around with the users' input and (more or less silently) throwing away part of their submitted data. > -- > Shane IIRC, the "usual" approach was to deal with such a change in phases, like issue a warning for a while, then refuse an update if it violates the acceptable schema, and eventually cleaning up old objects that haven't been touched for a looong time. I'm sure the DB guys can refresh our memory regarding the specifics. Wilfried.
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