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Denis Walker
denis at ripe.net
Wed Feb 22 17:03:13 CET 2012
HI Shane I pulled out some more stats along the lines of what you asked for below. They are published on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/update-statistics-for-the-ripe-database cheers denis On 15/02/12:8 7:29 PM, Shane Kerr wrote: > Denis, > > On Wednesday, 2012-02-15 15:28:24 +0100, > Denis Walker <denis at ripe.net> wrote: >> >> >> On 15/02/12:8 2:29 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: >>> On 15/02/2012 13:15, Denis Walker wrote: >>>> Some ideas that have been suggested during discussions in the past >>>> are to disallow the use of passwords in email updates and also the >>>> option to drop email updates completely. >>> >>> Denis, >>> >>> Do you have statistics on approx. how many objects are updated per >>> day using each methods: web interface, email, syncupdates and the >>> RESTful API? >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> >> >> Hi Nick >> >> Here are some quick stats for this year showing the ration of mail to >> other from the update logs. To identify the difference between >> Webupdates, Syncupdates and API would take quite a bit more work >> digging into all the apache web logs. > > So, to summarize the table, 85.4% of updates come through syncupdates, > and the rest come through mail. > > That's an interesting statistic, but doesn't give us a full picture. We > expect that heavy database users will prefer syncupdates, so the heavy > preference for syncupdates is hardly surprising. > > I think what is important is to know how many maintainers use each type > of authentication. > > So, of the 470k or so updates in a month, how many maintainers does > that represent, and which authentication methods are used? For example, > it could be that 5 big ISPs are responsible for 370k updates per month > (who use syncupdates), but that the remaining 100k updates are made by > 4000 different maintainers, most of which use email and passwords. > > Of course we can equally find that only a very few maintainers use > e-mail (perhaps big ISPs which automated their setup many years ago and > have just kept it because it works). > > My €0,02... > > -- > Shane >
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