[db-wg] Future of "geoloc:"

Hi there,

A quick suggestion you might have already thought about: why not deprecate
the "geoloc:" attribute and make it clear it is deprecated in docs and all
UI, without preventing its usage?

Kind regards,
Laurent Pellegrino

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 10:26 PM Daniel Suchy via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>
wrote:

> geofeed is quite new attribute... you cannot expect quick adoption in
> field. At this time, geoloc should simply remain as-is.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 4/12/22 21:17, denis walker via db-wg wrote:
> > Colleagues
> >
> > Now we have the "geofeed:" attribute, what should we do with
> > "geoloc:"? Right now far more people are using "geoloc:" than
> > "geofeed:".
> >
> > denis$ zgrep "^geofeed:" ~/Desktop/ripe.db.inetnum.gz  | wc -l
> >       289
> > denis$ zgrep "^remarks:\s*geofeed" ~/Desktop/ripe.db.inetnum.gz  | wc -l
> >        13
> >
> > Although from the 289 there are only 161 unique organisations.
> >
> > denis$ zgrep "^geoloc:" ~/Desktop/ripe.db.inetnum.gz  | wc -l
> >     35453
> >
> > cheers
> > denis
> > co-chair DB-WG
> >
>
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