Deletion Procedure

[Daniel Karrenberg <]

To balance the formalism stuff with something technical :-).

I think this was consensus in Paris. Please comment.

How to delete a RIPE database object?

The NCC proposes to implement this by an normal database update t
the object to be deleted including a delete attribute as the last
attribute listed. In order to delete

person:    Daniel Karrenberg
address:   RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC)
address:   Kruislaan 409
address:   NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
address:   Netherlands
phone:     +31 20 592 5065
fax-no:    +31 20 592 5090
e-mail:    dfk@localhost
nic-hdl:   DK58
changed:   ripe-dbm@localhost 920826
source:    RIPE

one would send in 

person:    Daniel Karrenberg
address:   RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC)
address:   Kruislaan 409
address:   NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
address:   Netherlands
phone:     +31 20 592 5065
fax-no:    +31 20 592 5090
e-mail:    dfk@localhost
nic-hdl:   DK58
changed:   ripe-dbm@localhost 920826
source:    RIPE
delete:	   karrenberg@localhost person has moved

The value of the delete attribute is a commentary which can be used to
record reasons for the deletion which will be archived and can be used
by database administrators to verify delte requests.

In order to safeguard against unwanted deletions the object will only be
deleted if all attributes in the delete request match those in the database.
Otherwise a diagnostic will be returned to the requestor and the deletion
refused.