Why not deciding this by mail and doing it *now*? (since everybody
seems to agree)
10 min to remove those lines from the DB file (grep -v is fine)
10 min to disable the nsf-in attribute in the conf file (or dbupdate.pl)
1h ? to rebuilt the index file.
No big deal...
> =I feel for Daniels and Jean-Michel's first option. They should
> =definately be deprecated (although I have always viewed them as info
> =only attibutes) and preferably removed. Although some people may find
>
> I agree with this point of view.
>
> I'm going to put it on the agenda for the DB-WG at the Amsterdam
> RIPE-Meeting. We should have a *short* review and then agree on a
> proposal and a *timeschedule* to remove this information from the
> database.
>
> =this information useful currently, wrong information is worse than no
> =information. I'd say obsolete.
>
> Agreed.
> At the same time we should come up with a recommendation for new
> ways of storing pieces of information that people maybe still want to
> record in the DB. (Like connect, gateway, and the like).
>
> Wilfried.
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