[ncc-services-wg] Re: [db-wg] "referral-by:" attribute

On Jun 8, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Shane Kerr wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 12:37 +0200, Denis Walker wrote:
>> If we make it optional now, although it is still in the RPSL definition,
>> it can be completely ignored. Does anyone have any strong views on this
>> either way?
> 
> I'd actually suggest going further, and getting rid of it completely.
> 
> I think the change could be done so that "referral-by:" attributes would
> be automatically removed when an addition or update was made, so that
> people don't have to change their software when creating maintainer
> objects. In theory this warning could be converted to an error at some
> point in the future, but I don't think it would actually ever be
> necessary.

I agree with Shane. Let's clean up after ourselves.

Regards,

Leo