On 18 Apr 2007, at 07:34, Denis Walker wrote:
According to our database consistency statistics program (dbconstat [1]) we currently have 460,573 unreferenced person/role objects [2]. Some of these may be maintained, but are still unreferenced. Any personal data not referenced by Internet resources do not fit within the purpose of the RIPE Database. They should not be stored in the RIPE Database beyond a reasonable 'work in progress' period.
Do you have any data on the age of these unreferenced people/ objects ? I don't get warm-and-fuzzies from the thought of deleting objects.... On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:11, Leo Vegoda wrote:
This case could also be avoided by making it impossible to re-use a nic-hdl.
I used to work for LIR-X and now I'm working for new LIR-Y. Whilst internal paperwork is done my person object is orphaned, but I a. want to keep my handle b. want to keep my maintainer stuff intact Please lets try to understand why objects are orphaned before we take a bullet to them. cheers -a