[ncc-services-wg] Clean up of unreferenced person/role objects

Denis Walker schrieb:
> Introduction
> ------------
> 
> According to our database consistency statistics program (dbconstat [1]) we
> currently have 460,573 unreferenced person/role objects [2]. Some of these
> may be maintained, but are still unreferenced. Any personal data not
> referenced by Internet resources do not fit within the purpose of the RIPE
> Database. They should not be stored in the RIPE Database beyond a reasonable
> 'work in progress' period.
[...]

so, my 0.02EUR:

unreferenced person/role objects should not stay in the RIPE whois db
forever and should been cleaned up on a regular basis,
i agree since 2001 :-)

I don't really know how that vast amount of useless(?) data affects the 
database operation nowadays (lookup/update times, mirror synchronization 
, databse sizes ect.), if at all with the current database machines, but 
the issue is more general.
It just makes no real sense to keep them in there.


> One time bulk cleanup procedure
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[...]

But like some other people i'm not really happy about the "no e-mail 
notification" thing. Not even for the one-time procedure.

I really really would like to have at least the regular 
update/delete-notificiations.

It's just a bad thing to delete something without notifying the "owner". 
I wouldn't like that to happen to my objects - probably i keep one old 
Internic person object i copied to the RIPE db some decades ago alive 
but unreferenced since it's without the xyz-RIPE tag and i don't like to 
really use it anymore but .... at least i'd like to know if it gets 
deleted and the WHY in the delete: reason filed.

Bottom line: If it's agreed on that it's not possible for the RIPE NCC 
to send out the notifications for whatever reason, i'd actually rather 
like to keep the objects there - or take smaller steps so it IS possible 
to send out notifications (hey, it took so long to re-activate that 
'project', so it can't be that time-critical ;-).

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