Wilfried Woeber: Fwd: Re: Invalid data in the RIPE database

[Marten Terpstra <]

Wilfried has some mail connectivity problems to the RIPE NCC,
therefore he asked me to resend the mail below concerning the as-in
and as-out attributes.

-Marten

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Date:     Tue, 26 Apr 1994 16:36:51 +0100
From:     "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" woeber@localhost
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Subject:  Fwd: Re: Invalid data in the RIPE database

Marten,

this was (one of) the message(s) that made it to L.Joncheray,
but didn't reach you personally and the -wg lists.

Maybe you could forward them, to keep the chaos down to a reasonable
level.

Sorry,
Wilfried.


From:	ACCESS::WOEBER       "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" 26-APR-1994 11:31
:48.07
To:	MX%"Marten.Terpstra@localhost"
CC:	MX%"lpj@localhost",MX%"routing-wg@localhost",MX%"db-wg@localhost",WOEBER
Subj:	Re: Invalid data in the RIPE database

=Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@localhost writes
= *
= *   > Laurent Joncheray lpj@localhost writes:
= *   > 	Dear database managers,
= *   > i had a look at some entries in the RIPE database and at the
= *   > 'nsf-in' network attribute. For a lot of them the value in the RIPE
= *   > db is inconsistant with the Merit (NSF) database...
= *
= * More radical question: Considering that the NSFnet is going away and
= * the routing registry has routing policy, should these attributes
= * be deprecated or even removed totally?
=
=Jean-Michel writes
=
= * 1- obsolete this field.
= * 2- Implement what Laurent proposes (automatic download from Merit).
=
=I feel for Daniels and Jean-Michel's first option. They should
=definately be deprecated (although I have always viewed them as info
=only attibutes) and preferably removed. Although some people may find

  I agree with this point of view. 

  I'm going to put it on the agenda for the DB-WG at the Amsterdam
  RIPE-Meeting. We should have a *short* review and then agree on a
  proposal and a *timeschedule* to remove this information from the
  database.

=this information useful currently, wrong information is worse than no
=information. I'd say obsolete.

  Agreed.
  At the same time we should come up with a recommendation for new
  ways of storing pieces of information that people maybe still want to
  record in the DB. (Like connect, gateway, and the like).
  
  Wilfried.
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