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

Dear colleagues,

The clean-up is complete and the file within the FTP site now shows only
allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt

Kind regards,

Laura Cobley
RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager


On 3/27/13 4:10 PM, Laura Cobley wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> On 7 March, we asked for feedback on our proposal to clean up the file
> within the FTP site that contains allocated address space held by the
> RIPE NCC membership. This file is available at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
> 
> We had one clarification request and one message of support. We will
> update the file tomorrow and send a further announcement when the
> clean-up is complete.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Laura Cobley
> RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
> 
> 
> On 3/7/13 6:10 PM, 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
>>
>>
>>
> 
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