You are right Randy, sometimes you are so subtle I can't figure out which side of the argument you are supporting. Are you saying you think it should be possible to protect contact data from deletion when it is not referenced by any resource objects? So it is there for some reason other than the main purpose of the database. cheers denis co-chair DB-WG On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 20:15, Randy Bush via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
The DB team maintains this list and will exclude an object on request. please exclude all objects i might wish to look up.
perhaps i was being too subtle. the original purpose of the whois database was for operators to contact each other for coordination and sharing of exciting events. some of us dinosaurs still use it for these mundane purposes.
Blanket whitelisting won't work
it is what we have today. the proposal is to change that. i am trying to understand how this would make my (a paying customer's) job easier.
randy