Improving Data Quality on the FTP Site
Dear colleagues, As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we would like to update a file within the FTP site: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt According to our records, this file should contain a list of allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. However, in addition to the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice. We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows only allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. Other than removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be changed. We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March, 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or sent to <ncc@ripe.net> before then. Kind regards, Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
Good! As a regular observer of this file's content i'm happy to see this clean-up going forward soon. Regards, Carlos Friaças On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Laura Cobley wrote:
Dear colleagues,
As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we would like to update a file within the FTP site:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
According to our records, this file should contain a list of allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. However, in addition to the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice.
We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows only allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. Other than removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be changed.
We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March, 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or sent to <ncc@ripe.net> before then.
Kind regards,
Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
Dear all, As a consumer of this data, I have a question regarding the legitimately closed (no test nor renamed) LIRs in file. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Laura Cobley <laura@ripe.net> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we would like to update a file within the FTP site:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
According to our records, this file should contain a **list of allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership**. However, in addition to the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice.
We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows **only allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership**. Other than removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be changed.
Just to make it clear: does this mean the file will just include active LIRs and their allocations, effectively excluding all sort of closed LIRs?
We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March, 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or sent to <ncc@ripe.net> before then.
Kind regards,
Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
Thanks in advance and have a nice day, Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina Cazenave
Dear Iñigo, Thank you for your question and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. The file will show all allocated address space, regardless of whether it is held in an active or a closed RIPE NCC member account. However, when closing member accounts, we follow the procedures outlined in ripe-578 and deregister the address space. Some allocations that are pending removal may temporarily appear in the file. These will disappear once the relevant administrative processes are complete. The full procedure is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-578 I hope this answers your question. Kind regards, Laura Cobley RIPE NCC On 3/13/13 10:22 AM, Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina wrote:
Dear all,
As a consumer of this data, I have a question regarding the legitimately closed (no test nor renamed) LIRs in file.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Laura Cobley <laura@ripe.net> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we would like to update a file within the FTP site:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
According to our records, this file should contain a **list of allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership**. However, in addition to the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice.
We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows **only allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership**. Other than removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be changed.
Just to make it clear: does this mean the file will just include active LIRs and their allocations, effectively excluding all sort of closed LIRs?
We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March, 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or sent to <ncc@ripe.net> before then.
Kind regards,
Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
Thanks in advance and have a nice day,
Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina Cazenave
Dear colleagues, On 7 March, we asked for feedback on our proposal to clean up the file within the FTP site that contains allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. This file is available at: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt We had one clarification request and one message of support. We will update the file tomorrow and send a further announcement when the clean-up is complete. Kind regards, Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager On 3/7/13 6:10 PM, Laura Cobley wrote:
Dear colleagues,
As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we would like to update a file within the FTP site:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
According to our records, this file should contain a list of allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. However, in addition to the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice.
We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows only allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. Other than removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be changed.
We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March, 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or sent to <ncc@ripe.net> before then.
Kind regards,
Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
Dear colleagues, The clean-up is complete and the file within the FTP site now shows only allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt Kind regards, Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager On 3/27/13 4:10 PM, Laura Cobley wrote:
Dear colleagues,
On 7 March, we asked for feedback on our proposal to clean up the file within the FTP site that contains allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. This file is available at:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
We had one clarification request and one message of support. We will update the file tomorrow and send a further announcement when the clean-up is complete.
Kind regards,
Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
On 3/7/13 6:10 PM, Laura Cobley wrote:
Dear colleagues,
As part of our efforts to improve data quality across the RIPE NCC, we would like to update a file within the FTP site:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt
According to our records, this file should contain a list of allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. However, in addition to the expected data, the file also contains a number of references to obsoleted member accounts which no longer exist. These include, for example, accounts created for internal testing and accounts which have subsequently been renamed and therefore appear twice.
We are therefore proposing a clean-up of this data so that it shows only allocated address space held by the RIPE NCC membership. Other than removing the erroneous information, the format of the data will not be changed.
We plan to begin the clean-up three weeks from today (Thursday 28 March, 2013) and would be grateful for any feedback via this mailing list or sent to <ncc@ripe.net> before then.
Kind regards,
Laura Cobley RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
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Carlos Friacas -
Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina -
Laura Cobley