Deletion of person objects. Final reminder
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Andrei Robachevsky
andrei at ripe.net
Sun Sep 23 13:10:19 CEST 2001
Dear all, This is just to notify you that the removal of the set of person objects has finished successfully. Almost 3 million person objects have been deleted from the RIPE Database. It took a bit longer than we expected, but everything went without problems. Sorry for inconvenience this caused. Best regards, Andrei Robachevsky DB Group Manager RIPE NCC Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote: > > Dear all, > > (apologies for duplicates) > > Today is the 21st of September. > > As such, the RIPE NCC will proceed to delete the set of person/role > objects detailed in my previous announcements from the RIPE Database. > Please see the URL > http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/orphaned.html for > information on the details of the objects to be deleted. > > The following is an outline of the process we will be using: > > 1. Stop updating the database on Friday, 21, at 18:00 CEST. > 2. Remove all person objects according to the criteria: > - maintained _only_ by DE domain resellers and not referenced > - not maintained and not referenced > This will take ~15 hours > 3. Next day, on Saturday restart the server with the new database. > 4. Resume the updates. > > As you can see, this process will result in period of a few hours > during which UPDATE/ADDITION/DELETION messages sent to the RIPE > Database will not be processed immediately, but rather stored for > later processing. > > Queries will be serviced by our hot spare machine. Users will not > notice any downtime on that part of the service. > > The length of the outage is directly related to the number of objects > to be deleted (more than 2 million) and the need to use special > processes to finalise the process in a reasonable time. > > Further to this deletion, and in order to avoid replication of the > current situation after this deletion process, incoming messages > containing person and role objects originating from domain name > related activities will NOT be processed. > > The RIPE NCC will contact any source of such messages in order to > clear any possible misunderstandings. > > Hoping to have informed you well, > > Joao Luis Silva Damas > Chief Technical Officer > RIPE NCC
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