[ncc-services-wg] Plan to discontinue email signing from certain addresses
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Richard Hartmann
richih.mailinglist at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 14:45:24 CEST 2013
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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/attachments/20130409/bcc28bfb/attachment.html>
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