On 2002-12-11 15:00:47 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
Dear colleagues,
changing today our key-cert objects, I'd encounter a bit of inconvenience: one can't cut'n'paste key-cert object from whois request: [s]he should manually delete method/owner/fingerpr attributes.
My suggestion is:
if one of r/o attributes exists in the object processed, DB should check whether auto-computed value of the attribute matches supplied value; - if yes, no error/warning should be produced - if no -- it should of course be reported; I think, it's up to the community to decide whether this condition should be treated as error or simply as warning.
I think this is a great idea for all generated attributes.
I think, the same procedure should be also applied to other de-facto read-only attributes, such as person name in person object.
What is the suggestion exactly? To produce a warning on changing of person/role names? -- Shane Kerr RIPE NCC