RIPE Bulk WHOIS change anonymization
Hi Ripe Team, I asked your DB Managers and they suggested to forward my question to you. I hope that I don't unnecessarily spam you, but I couldn't find this in your db-wg archive with a quick look. Question: Is it possible to keep the actual "date" of the "changed:" line unanonymized? By now it's always: changed: unread@ripe.net 20000101 I get that you want to protect personal data like the mail adresses in this field, but I can't see how this date could harm anyone. I would like to use this date field for research purpose and I am happy about your answers! Michael Oelke Institute of Information Systems Humboldt-University Berlin
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 03:22:56PM +0200, Micha wrote:
I asked your DB Managers and they suggested to forward my question to you. I hope that I don't unnecessarily spam you, but I couldn't find this in your db-wg archive with a quick look.
Question: Is it possible to keep the actual "date" of the "changed:" line unanonymized? By now it's always: changed: unread@ripe.net 20000101 I get that you want to protect personal data like the mail adresses in this field, but I can't see how this date could harm anyone.
I would like to use this date field for research purpose and I am happy about your answers!
A proposal has been circulating through db-wg to create two new attributes which are accurate and reliable and deprecate the "changed:" attribute, I believe this covers what you want to research in the database: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2014-May/004362.html Kind regards, Job
I support this change, also to the FTP snapshots where they have annoyed me in the past. Of course, it doesn't necessarily bear any resemblance to the actual date of the last change, but there is no purpose I can see in redacting it. Regards, David On 17 June 2014 15:22, Micha <michael_oelke@freenet.de> wrote:
Hi Ripe Team,
I asked your DB Managers and they suggested to forward my question to you. I hope that I don't unnecessarily spam you, but I couldn't find this in your db-wg archive with a quick look.
Question: Is it possible to keep the actual "date" of the "changed:" line unanonymized? By now it's always: changed: unread@ripe.net 20000101 I get that you want to protect personal data like the mail adresses in this field, but I can't see how this date could harm anyone.
I would like to use this date field for research purpose and I am happy about your answers!
Michael Oelke
Institute of Information Systems Humboldt-University Berlin
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