On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Alex Band <alexb@ripe.net> wrote:

Signing emails from hostmaster@ripe.net, lir-help@ripe.net, new-lir@ripe.net and enum@ripe.net is one of the first pieces that we need to remove in order to phase out all the legacy software. While we realise that it is a best practice to sign such emails and are aware of the value it offers, we are planning to discontinue email signing from just these addresses starting 1 January 2014. It will allow us to phase out a part of our infrastructure that makes future migration a lot easier, while saving cost in the mean time.

Without specific data and hard numbers, it's hard to quantify how much money and effort RIPE NCC thinks it may save.

Unless we are speaking of incredibly high numbers, I fail to see how not signing email is a good idea. Especially since you are giving a start date, not an end date.

I strongly agree with Gert and Sander that this seems to be a bad idea.

Richard