At today's meeting the RIPE NCC raised the question whether RIPE Atlas Data could be "archived" and longer be accessible by the 'standard API'. I consider this a bad idea because we will loose the ability to access the data with current and future tools, both RIPE NCC tools and those developed by the community using the Atlas API. Long baselines are useful not only for scientific research, but also for developing robust tools and applied research. We have not heard why the RIPE NC has raised the question. So I propose that we ask the RIPE NCC to prepare a detailed proposal including the motivation for proposing this. Until that happens we should keep all RIPE Atlas Data accessible as usual and not spend any time discussing this. Daniel