[db-wg] RIPE Database: Cleaning-up Organisation Names in "descr:"
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denis
ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 11 02:55:42 CEST 2016
HI Job On 11/05/2016 02:00, Job Snijders wrote: > Hi Denis, > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 01:48:33AM +0200, denis wrote: >> We have been in this situation many times in the past where an >> attribute has been deprecated or its value has been suspect for some >> reason. >> >> What we did in the past was to make the suspect/deprecated attribute >> into a "remarks:" attribute. > > Sometimes this approach was used, but certainly not always. > >> This addresses both concerns raised in response to your discussion in >> this case. The old value is still there but it is clear it is not a >> reliable description. Those who want to keep that value can simply >> remove the "remarks:" tag. Those who don't want it can delete the >> attribute. After maybe 6 months you can do a final cleanup and remove >> any old value that has been left as a "remarks:". > > Had the attribute been an actual "user-owned" attribute, the "remarks:" > approach might have made more sense, but this is not the case. > > Thanks for chiming in, > > Job > > ps. It still annoys me somewhat that the "remarks: For information on > "status:"" remarks show up everywhere, years later. :) > I believe these are only in AUT-NUM objects that had a new "status:" attribute added and all levels of legacy resource hierarchies that had their "status:" value changed. IIRC when I wrote the implementation plan for this change these "remarks:" attributes were locked in place to prevent accidental removal before anyone read it and then flood Customer Services with questions about the status change. Many AUT-NUM objects are auto-generated and it would be easy to lose these remarks. I think the plan was to unlock these attributes after about 1 year. Another thing that was forgotten after I left...keeping track of things like this was one of the many things someone at the NCC did not know I did :) cheers denis
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