Hi Gert

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 16:05, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:55:26PM +0100, denis walker via db-wg wrote:
> > This new anti-spam measure is a convenient point to reflect on how one
> > part of the RIPE Database is used. Notifications are just one part of
> > an audit system. Many other parts are missing. To be sending out 30k
> > emails a day to hundreds of thousands of email addresses stored in a
> > public database as part of an incomplete audit system has to stop.
> > Notification emails on this scale are a relic of the past.
>
> Just as a counterpoint, I do like my notification e-mails.  Push
> notification in case I do need to care, and *only then*.
>
> And I totally dislike having to actually look into some sort of
> portal / web UI "is there anything I should be aware of?", because
> this sort of polling is eating brain cycles for no good.

But looking through lots of email notifications about changes that you
already know about, because you did them, and maybe in the middle is a
notification of an attempted security breach that failed on
authentication (that you may miss), doesn't that also eat up brain
cycles?

So how about a compromise. A full audit trail of all details of all
changes to all your data available by default  to designated people
through your portal account. Plus a daily email summarising all the
changes also sent to people whose email addresses are set up in the
portal account. So still no notif email addresses needed all across
the database. This could even be done per maintainer.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG

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>
> (Having a good audit trail is fine, in case I know I'm looking for
> something - but I do just want to see "something under my administration
> has changed", in case I do not yet know I should be looking)
>
> Gert Doering
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