[ncc-services-wg] Improving Data Quality on the FTP Site

Good!

As a regular observer of this file's content i'm happy to see this 
clean-up going forward soon.

Regards,
Carlos Friaças


On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Laura Cobley wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we
> would like to update a file within the FTP site:
>
> ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
>
> According to our records, this file should contain a list of allocated
> address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. However, in addition to
> the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to
> obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for
> example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have
> subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice.
>
> We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows only
> allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. Other than
> removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be
> changed.
>
> We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March,
> 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or
> sent to <ncc at ripe.net> before then.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Laura Cobley
> RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
>
>