FW: FW: FW: FW: [db-wg] Proposal to deprecate CRYPT-PW authorisation in the RIPE Database

At 03:49 PM 05-10-06 +0400, Potapov Vladislav wrote:
>I don't think that the matter even worst speaking about, because still
>nobody has answered that there has been any problem with existing
>schemes even for no-maintainer objects (it's one more way to ignore your
>attempts to strengten maintainer object). So "the worst thing we can do"
>is only words. The information in the DB is not accurate, representative
>or hard tied to operational issues, so the world will be there if it
>disappears completely (maybe slightly annoying for some players, not
>more).

I think a number of people have pointed out why they wish to deprecate 
crypt-pw.  To answer your latest points - data in the DB should be accurate 
and it does show who is allowed or not allowed to use a range of IPs, and 
if the data does 'disappear' as you say, it will have operational impact on 
a number of ISPs that build their access lists from the data in the RIPE-DB.

It would appear that you might be enjoying the ability to abuse certain 
RIPE objects with weak security and by deprecating crypt-pw we will be 
impacting your playground.

-Hank


>Potapov Vladislav
>Ru.iiat