[db-wg] Clean up of unreferenced person/role objects

On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Shane Kerr wrote:

[...]

> (*) For example, a worse problem would be referencing the wrong
> person/role object. This can happen like so:
>
> - Person object X created
> - Months pass...
> - Person object X deleted by this process
> - Person object Y created with same "nic-hdl:" as object X
> - User who created person object X decides to use it, but actually
>   refers to object Y (since it has the same "nic-hdl:")
>
> The user who created person object X assumes it is still fine, because
> the usual notification was not received, and in any case it was
> probably protected by "mnt-by:".
>
> Of course, this is an unlikely corner case. :)

This case could also be avoided by making it impossible to re-use a  
nic-hdl. I believe that is already the case for organisation objects.  
Putting it in place for person and role objects would probably be a  
good thing. But I doubt it's an urgent requirement and I wouldn't  
want to delay this cleanup.

Regards,

-- 
Leo Vegoda
IANA Numbers Liaison