[APNIC Members][Apnic-announce] APNIC Whois Database cleanup project

["APNIC Secretariat" <secretariat@apnic.net>]

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APNIC Whois Database cleanup project
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Introduction
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At the 15th APNIC Open Policy Meeting the APNIC Secretariat submitted a
proposal in the Database SIG to remove any person/role and maintainer
objects, not being referenced by valid APNIC Internet resource objects,
from the APNIC Whois Database.

A consensus was reached in the SIG and the Secretariat is now proceeding
with the implementation to remove approximately 28,000 unreferenced
objects.

Affected record holders will be notified by email and any records still
unreferenced after no less than 60 days will be automatically removed
from the APNIC Whois Database and backed up to an archive.


Cleanup project schedule
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29 May 2003        APNIC Whois Database scanned for unreferenced
                   person/role and maintainer objects

May, June 2003     Warning emails sent progressively to the contact
                   persons for these objects

July, August 2003  Objects still unreferenced 60 days after the email
                   advice are removed from the APNIC Whois Database

August 2003        Project statistics compiled and reported on the
                   Database SIG mailing list and at APNIC 16 in Seoul


More information
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Proposal to cleanup the APNIC Whois Database:

 
http://www.apnic.net/meetings/15/sigs/db/docs/db-pres-sanjaya-whois-clea
nup.ppt

Minutes from the Database SIG, 26 February 2003:

    http://www.apnic.net/meetings/15/sigs/db/minutes.html#2

APNIC Whois Database cleanup project:

    http://www.apnic.net/db/db-cleanup.html



Regards,
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