Re: "changed" field should be deleted

[Michael van Elst <]

Hello,

On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 04:58:53PM +0200, kissg@localhost wrote:
> > Hiding the changed: lines definitely breaks every system that keeps
> > _copies_ of the entries because it is impossible to update entries
> > from these copies without trashing the existing entries.
> 
> I guess the most of these uneducated users use the www interface of the
> RIPE-DB and not a client program.
> So in the first step it should be filtered out "changed" fields on
> the web. This probably doesn't effect the system you wrote about.

Agreed. But IMHO there is hardly a problem from people manually looking
for these addresses and scripts probably aren't written by 'uneducated
users' nor would they get the information from the WWW interface.

> Then the whole db software could be modified in such a way that
> it reponses just a fake line (changed: you-are@localhost 990101)
> unless the query contains a "-C almost_secret_password_here" option.
> The so called "password" might be retrieved by e-mail
> from the RIPE NCC.

This would obviously help the registries but other users of the RIPE-DB
might be left out by this solution.

Greetings,
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