Hi Erik, the current version history implementation does not return the deleted object history to protect the personal data of a previous resource holder.
There has been previous discussion by the Working Group to change this, and there is a work item in progress: NWI-2 "displaying history for DB objects where available". Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC > On 28 Aug 2018, at 09:27, Erik Bais via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote: > > If the WG is going to look at improving the --list-sources code base, I have > something that I would love to see on the wish list to be implemented.. > > Maintaining history (upto the point where a prefix is leaving the RIPE DB, > due to an inter-rir transfer. ) is helpful to see who the previous holder was > or where the prefix came from. > > This is particular the case with Legacy prefixes that are being split up.. as > it is current practise to delete the parent prefix after a prefix split and > transfer. > Once the parent is deleted, you can't list or request the history of the > parent prefix anymore. > > If the historic --list-versions and --show-version could be preserved somehow > (on the original prefix size.. instead of them being deleted..), that would > be very helpful. > > Regards, > Erik Bais >
