In message <6D779DA7-C665-409B-903C-FC0A7DB47BBF@icann.org>, you wrote:
On 27 Sep 2010, at 4:57, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
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So anyway, has it ever been considered to add date/time stamps to RIPE whois records, at least for record _creation_ if not also for last modification time?
Andrei Robachevsky proposed something along those lines a while back:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-40/presentations/timestamping/index.= html
I remember that there were some objections but as this was almost a decade = ago it is possible that people have changed their minds.
All I can say is that we here in ARIN space seem to have been surviving having time stamps on our whois records, without too many ill effects, for quite a long time now. (And the world hasn't come to an end, as far as I know.) Regards, rfg