[db-wg] Deprecation of DBConstat service
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Nigel Titley
nigel at titley.com
Fri Jul 6 00:31:50 CEST 2012
On 28/06/2012 14:44, Denis Walker wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > The RIPE NCC announced last week an intention to deprecate the DBConstat > service. > > The service will be de-commisioned at the end of next week. If anyone > has any concerns about this service, please reply to the mailing list > within the week. > > Regards, > > Denis Walker > Business Analyst > RIPE NCC Database Group > > > On 21/06/12:26 3:20 PM, Denis Walker wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> >> The RIPE NCC has carried out a thorough review of DBConstat, a service >> to check consistency of data in the RIPE Database and produce >> statistics. It was written over ten years ago and has changed little >> over that period. The current software is unmaintainable now. The >> results of this review are published on RIPE Labs: >> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/review-of-dbconstat >> >> The review showed that this service produces a series of almost flat >> line graphs and provides an interactive service barely used by anyone >> and resulting in no significant improvement in data quality in the RIPE >> Database. >> >> The RIPE NCC believes this is not the way to address the few outstanding >> inconsistencies reported by this service. We therefore intend to >> deprecate this service, then investigate and address the remaining >> inconsistencies using other methods, as discussed in the article on RIPE >> Labs. >> >> If anyone has any concerns about this service, please reply to the >> mailing list within the next two weeks. >> We haven't had any response. If you want to keep DBConstat then you have just a few more hours to note the fact. Nigel DB-WG Co-chair
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