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Nigel Titley
nigel at titley.com
Fri Apr 18 00:43:41 CEST 2014
On 17/04/14 12:58, Denis Walker wrote: > Dear Job > > If we implement attributes with generated values is there any point in > keeping the "changed:" attribute at all? > > It: > -is user set to a vast range of dates (user's choice) with as many or > few instances as you wish > -is unreliable and possibly miss-leading to anyone else > -will become, even if correct, a duplication of both the generated > values and --list-versions output > -requires mandatory email address > -invites abuse > > Maybe it could be deprecated if the proposed attributes are implemented? I feel that this would make sense. The changed: attribute actually seems to convey very little in the way of concrete data. > > Regards > Denis Walker > Business Analyst > RIPE NCC Database Team > > On 17/04/2014 13:38, Job Snijders wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:33:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >>> On Apr 15, Job Snijders<job at instituut.net> wrote: >>> >>>> I look forward to the group's feedback! Also, I'm interested in how >>>> people would use this attribute in their workflows or automation. >>> No objections to an automatically enforced last-modified attribute, >>> but then I would demote changed to an optional attribute to allow >>> removing duplicate information. I already use changed this way, by >>> only keeping the last one. >> I think making changed: optional is good addition to the proposal. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Job >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20140417/7168849f/attachment.html>
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