[db-wg] Deprecation of whitepages

Hi Denis, 

> On 28 Jan 2021, at 19:37, denis walker <ripedenis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Will
> 
> I wasn't aware that the RIPE Atlas system/service had any reliance on
> objects in the RIPE Database. Maybe Robert can elaborate more on this?
> 
> There are only 4 PERSON objects in the RIPE Database that reference
> the Whitepages ORGANISATION object. None of these make any reference
> in remarks to RIPE Atlas. So clearly no one is using the old
> Whitepages service for RIPE Atlas. There is 1 ROLE object in the
> database that does refer to RIPE Atlas, CAAO-RIPE. This object was
> created in 2014 and was recently modified. But it is not referenced
> anywhere...so it should have been automatically deleted after 90 days.
> Maybe Ed can look at why this object still exists in the database?
> 

There is an exclude list for the cleanup unreferenced objects job, and CAAO-RIPE is excluded, so it will never be deleted.

The DB team maintains this list and will exclude an object on request.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC