Why not deciding this by mail and doing it *now*? (since everybody seems to agree) 10 min to remove those lines from the DB file (grep -v is fine) 10 min to disable the nsf-in attribute in the conf file (or dbupdate.pl) 1h ? to rebuilt the index file. No big deal...

=I feel for Daniels and Jean-Michel's first option. They should =definately be deprecated (although I have always viewed them as info =only attibutes) and preferably removed. Although some people may find

I agree with this point of view.

I'm going to put it on the agenda for the DB-WG at the Amsterdam RIPE-Meeting. We should have a *short* review and then agree on a proposal and a *timeschedule* to remove this information from the database.

=this information useful currently, wrong information is worse than no =information. I'd say obsolete.

Agreed. At the same time we should come up with a recommendation for new ways of storing pieces of information that people maybe still want to record in the DB. (Like connect, gateway, and the like).

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