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

On 09/04/2013 15:59, Alex Band wrote:
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> Thanks for the quick feedback everyone. Of course we would have liked 
> to avoid this situation altogether, but anyone who is familiar with 
> phasing out legacy systems knows what kind of unfortunate obstacles 
> can arise. Allow me to explain this in a little more detail, at the 
> risk of ending up in a bikeshedding discussion. :)
>
> Currently, tickets are being signed by a very old server, running an 
> unsupported legacy OS and GNUPG1. In the beginning of the year, we 
> tried phasing this server out and handle signing from one of our 
> standard platforms running GNUPG2. That box signs emails very well, 
> however our legacy ticketing refuses to play nice with it. We spent 
> many, many hours on getting it our ticketing system to behave, but to 
> no avail. The result was that we rolled back to the old solution, 
> followed by this announcement:
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2013-January/001968.html
>
> The proposal to discontinue ticket signing would be a temporary 
> measure to allow an easier transition. That's all we're asking for.

That sounds fine to me.... next time try asking your management to allow 
you to say that straight out ;-)

All the best

Nigel
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