[ncc-services-wg] Plan to discontinue email signing from certain addresses

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Alex Band <alexb at ripe.net> wrote:


> Signing emails from hostmaster at ripe.net, lir-help at ripe.net,
> new-lir at ripe.net and enum at ripe.net is one of the first pieces that we
> need to remove in order to phase out all the legacy software. While we
> realise that it is a best practice to sign such emails and are aware of the
> value it offers, we are planning to discontinue email signing from just
> these addresses starting 1 January 2014. It will allow us to phase out a
> part of our infrastructure that makes future migration a lot easier, while
> saving cost in the mean time.
>

Without specific data and hard numbers, it's hard to quantify how much
money and effort RIPE NCC thinks it may save.

Unless we are speaking of incredibly high numbers, I fail to see how not
signing email is a good idea. Especially since you are giving a start date,
not an end date.


I strongly agree with Gert and Sander that this seems to be a bad idea.



Richard
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