Dear colleagues,
> On 5 Dec 2025, at 10:51, Cynthia Revström <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> That sounds like a much better timeline. :)
>
> Thanks for the update, I understand you don't want to delay it even further.
>
> -Cynthia
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2025, 15:35 Edward Shryane, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Cynthia,
>
> > On 3 Dec 2025, at 16:12, Cynthia Revström <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > I think this is a good idea however I would advocate for pushing it back
> > another 2-4 weeks, maybe February instead of January?
> >
> > This is because the first step in your plan (on 2026-01-05) takes place as
> > a fair number of people might still be on holiday (at least here in Sweden
> > many are).
> > Even if they aren't still on holiday that might be their first day back so
> > they might not have had time to prepare.
> >
>
> Thanks for letting me know. We need to balance removing password support in a
> timely fashion with not causing operational problems for our users.
>
> How about moving the first step to Wednesday 14th January at midday? This
> gives operators more time, and mid-week rather than the beginning of a week.
>
A reminder that the Database team plans to remove all remaining passwords from
all maintainers on this Wednesday, 14th January.
> To ensure the community is notified properly, in addition to notifying the
> DB-WG, we will also notify all maintainers with passwords beforehand, using
> all values in :
> * mntner {notify, mnt-nfy, upd-to, e-mail} attribute values
> * {notify, e-mail} attribute values in all tech-c references in all mntners
>
We notified the remaining 1,208 affected maintainers today by email, and will
do so again on Wednesday.
I found in he RIPE database update logs that 85 distinct maintainers used
password authentication in the past week.
Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC
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