Dear Ronald, On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:41:09PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message <E1gAaoe-0004fx-GZ@www-apps-1.ripe.net>, Marco Schmidt <mschmidt@ripe.net> wrote:
2) Please append the following additional sentence to section 2.0:
A permanent record of all route objects deleted from the RIPE IRR as a result of this policy, together with copies of all then-current referenced database objects, at the time of the deletion will be maintained and published by RIPE NCC, either via a simple plain text web page or as plain text provided to the public via some other means (e.g. a traditional port 43 WHOIS service),
(I believe that all details relating to this clean-up should be preserved for posterity and should be easily accessible to both current and future researchers and historians.)
In any case I recommend you download a copy of https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe-nonauth.db.gz which contains all the RIPE-NONAUTH data. Data can only be modified or deleted, no new data can be added to the RIPE-NONAUTH dataset. I'd personally don't really see a need to task the RIPE NCC to preserve this data forever, but I'm curious to know what others think. Kind regards, Job