Re: [db-wg] Clean up unreferenced maintainers (after 90 days)

2017-11-12 Thread denis walker via db-wg
Hi all Several years ago we did look at deleting not only individual objects or pairs, but whole clusters of objects (PERSON, ROLE, MNTNER, ORGANISATION (org-type: other), KEY-CERT) if non of these objects in a cluster were referenced by any operational objects. It is easy to build up a collecti

Re: [db-wg] Clean up unreferenced maintainers (after 90 days)

2017-11-12 Thread Christoffer Dam Hansen via db-wg
+1 Should have been implemented long ago in my opinion. Christoffer On 12 November 2017 at 07:12, Tim Bruijnzeels via db-wg wrote: > Dear Working Group, > > In the light of data protection we already clean up unreferenced > organisation, person and role objects, and also mntner-role and > mntn

Re: [db-wg] Clean up unreferenced maintainers (after 90 days)

2017-11-12 Thread Carlos Friaças via db-wg
+1 If they are unreferenced/unused, it's positive to clean up. Cheers, Carlos On Sun, 12 Nov 2017, Nick Hilliard via db-wg wrote: Tim Bruijnzeels via db-wg wrote: So-far unreferenced maintainers are not cleaned up. We have about 8k such objects in the database. These objects are often synta

Re: [db-wg] Proxy proposal large communities

2017-11-12 Thread Mark Prior via db-wg
On 13/11/17 00:58, Job Snijders wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 at 15:17, Mark Prior via db-wg > wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to just change the definition of community in the > RPSL dictionary so that a community of + ":" + ":" > + is valid and then have the t

Re: [db-wg] Proxy proposal large communities

2017-11-12 Thread Job Snijders via db-wg
On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 at 15:17, Mark Prior via db-wg wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to just change the definition of community in the > RPSL dictionary so that a community of + ":" + ":" > + is valid and then have the tools either barf if they don't > understand or do "the right thing"? That would

Re: [db-wg] Proxy proposal large communities

2017-11-12 Thread Mark Prior via db-wg
Wouldn't it be better to just change the definition of community in the RPSL dictionary so that a community of + ":" + ":" + is valid and then have the tools either barf if they don't understand or do "the right thing"? That would seem more consistent with the current scheme where a community can e

Re: [db-wg] Clean up unreferenced maintainers (after 90 days)

2017-11-12 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Tim Bruijnzeels via db-wg wrote: > So-far unreferenced maintainers are not cleaned up. We have about 8k > such objects in the database. These objects are often syntactically > incorrect and poorly maintained - so we would like to clean them up > automatically 90 days after they become unused. > >

Re: [db-wg] Proxy proposal large communities

2017-11-12 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Tim Bruijnzeels via db-wg wrote: > Job is asking to add a “large_community" keyword to RPSL dictionary where > applicable. Happy to support this if Job provides a patch for irrtoolset. Nick

Re: [db-wg] Validation on "org-name:" syntax (double spaces and newlines)

2017-11-12 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Tim Bruijnzeels via db-wg wrote: > 1) replace multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences on input (warn, but > just strip the additional space) > 2) reject multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences on input > > I am leaning towards option 2, but I would value your input. strong preference to fi