[db-wg] NWI reviews: NWI-2 displaying history for DB objects where available

In message <2054871960.332293.1601468662795 at mail.yahoo.com>, 
"ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk" <ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>This is another action point that has been open for 4 years. We either need=
> to progress it or cancel it.https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/=
>2016-May/005240.html
>It is basically asking for full history of existing and deleted resource ob=
>jects. In the link above on this NWI it mentions some doubt over the value =
>of full history. So the main questions are,=C2=A0-"is full history more use=
>ful than partial history?"=C2=A0-"is history of deleted objects, that don't=
> currently exist in the database, useful?"If so then I don't see any reason=
> not to provide it.

Please put me down as ALWAYS being in favor of MORE information.  When doing
research, less is never more.

On a related but different point...

>Let me give some background on this. Objects in the database are accessed b=
>y their primary key (pkey). In the case of an INETNUM object, for instance,=
>this is an address range...

Actually, not to quibble or anything, but unless I'm mistaken, the query
string has to be either a single IP address or a single CIDR.

I only mention this because some allocations are what I would call
"funny", i.e. they are not expressible as a single CIDR.


Regards,
rfg