To balance the formalism stuff with something technical :-). I think this was consensus in Paris. Please comment. How to delete a RIPE database object? The NCC proposes to implement this by an normal database update t the object to be deleted including a delete attribute as the last attribute listed. In order to delete person: Daniel Karrenberg address: RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) address: Kruislaan 409 address: NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam address: Netherlands phone: +31 20 592 5065 fax-no: +31 20 592 5090 e-mail: dfk@ripe.net nic-hdl: DK58 changed: ripe-dbm@ripe.net 920826 source: RIPE one would send in person: Daniel Karrenberg address: RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) address: Kruislaan 409 address: NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam address: Netherlands phone: +31 20 592 5065 fax-no: +31 20 592 5090 e-mail: dfk@ripe.net nic-hdl: DK58 changed: ripe-dbm@ripe.net 920826 source: RIPE delete: karrenberg@moneymakers.inc.com person has moved The value of the delete attribute is a commentary which can be used to record reasons for the deletion which will be archived and can be used by database administrators to verify delte requests. In order to safeguard against unwanted deletions the object will only be deleted if all attributes in the delete request match those in the database. Otherwise a diagnostic will be returned to the requestor and the deletion refused.