[ncc-services-wg] Plan to discontinue email signing from certain addresses
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Nigel Titley
nigel at titley.com
Tue Apr 9 17:27:10 CEST 2013
On 09/04/2013 15:59, Alex Band wrote: > > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/attachments/20130409/ef00a9ff/attachment.html>
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