January 2008 - ncc-services-wg

Maintenance Announcement
by Brian Riddle 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, From 10:00 - 17:00 (UTC) on Saturday, 2 February 2008, we will perform maintenance on our central file server. During this period, the following will be unavailable at times: - www.ripe.net - ftp.ripe.net The following services will be unavailable for the entire maintenance period: - e-learning.ripe.net - lirportal.ripe.net We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please e-mail ops(a)ripe.net Regards, Brian Riddle IT Manager RIPE NCC

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LIR Portal Upgrade
by Trudy Prins 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Dear Colleagues, A software upgrade for the LIR Portal is planned during the service's maintenance window on Wednesday, 9 January from 17:00-18:00 (UTC). During this time the LIR Portal may not be available. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact <sw-bugs(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Trudy Prins Manager Business Applications Department

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Unreferenced person/role objects
by Denis Walker 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

[Apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE Data Protection Task Force asked the RIPE NCC to look at why so many unreferenced person/role objects are being created. We found that one organisation was responsible for about 80% of all objects that became unreferenced over the course of 2007. At the time of investigation, this same organisation was responsible for about 30% of all existing unreferenced objects in the RIPE Database. We contacted them and they responded very quickly. They gave the RIPE NCC permission to delete all these unreferenced objects, and they have now adjusted their procedures. Over the New Year period, when we expected the load on the RIPE Database to be quite low, we deleted 161062 person/role objects. You can see the drop in the graph here: http://www.ripe.net/projects/dbconstat/cons-unrefpero.html This problem was caused by deleting inetnum objects, but not deleting the referenced person/role objects. We would like to ask you to please check your own assignment procedures. As customers come and go and you delete or re-assign address space, please delete any person/role objects that are no longer referenced. In the long term, the RIPE NCC will implement an automatic clean-up process, but this may take some time to develop. Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst, RIPE NCC

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