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Piotr Strzyzewski
Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl
Thu Apr 17 18:23:52 CEST 2014
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 05:59:30PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote: Dear Job > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 05:36:21PM +0200, Piotr Strzyzewski wrote: > > > 1. Breaking some scripts (already mentioned). > > Scripts depending on the existance of "changed:" when parsing an object > will break anyway if the attribute is made optional, so I fail to see > the point. Patching a script to accept ISO8601 string instead of > "20140101" should be trivial task for most companies when given a few > months notice. I expect any company with a dependency on the RIPE Whois > Database to invest at least a few hours per year to maintain the > software driving their operations. Good point. > As Denis stated earlier, scripts /updating/ the RIPE database need no > change as the attribute will just be ignored by the RIPE Whois software. Although I expect that at some point of time, the software will be changed to throw an error. > > 2. Some people keep real history of changes using this attribute. If > > this is going to be deprecated, they would be forced to rewrite some > > scripts. > > The history is already recorded, and automatically available through the > use of the --list-versions and --show-version flags. This is real And this is not true for every object: $ whois -- --list-versions PS1393-RIPE|grep available % History not available for PERSON and ROLE objects. > history as it can show you the actual changes between versions of an > object. When people deem it necessary to publically record who or what > made the last change, a "remarks:" attribute would be appropiate. Which exactly mean that they have to rewrite some scripts. And just to be clear - I vote for making this attribute deprecated. Piotr -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl
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