[members-discuss] NCC changing descr fields

Hi Paul,

What causes confusion is probably that it used to be mandatory to have the 
"descr:" field be exactly the org name of the holder, until the NCC very 
recently realised that since the "org:" pointer is now mandatory, 
demanding the same date in "descr:" was not needed any more.

So be patient, and you should be able to put whatever you like there. 
Hopefully.

Cheers,

Daniel Stolpe

On Wed, 3 Jun 2015, Paul Civati wrote:

> It seems as though someone has decided to run a process of 'tidying up'
> in the RIPE db by fiddling with descr fields.
>
> I've been informed that:
>
> ===
> During one of our data consistency checks, we saw that the resource holder
> information for these resources is not consistent:
> x.x.x.0-y.y.y.255
>
> We will therefore be updating the resource holder information in the RIPE
> database objects to <company> and ORG-xxxx-RIPE on 2015-06-08."
> ===
>
> This is somewhat mysterious, vague and puzzling
>
> Confusing because all the relevant handle and organisation records point
> to the correct objects for this block.
>
> Upon asking NCC what they are doing, I'm told that the descr field is incorrect
> and will be amended, actually to remove from it "London".
>
> What on earth is the point of this whole exercise?
>
> This has generated confusion on my part and a waste of support resource in NCC
> to deal with my query.
>
> We already have admin, tech and org fields that point to the identifying organisation
> for the object but now someone has decided that the descr field must have duplicated
> information.
>
> The help section in whois mentions nothing about what data is to be in descr
> field, nor do I recall any mandate that it must be set to the name of the organisation.
>
> I can't be the only one confused by this vague change  and asking NCC what is going
> on and why.
>
> Summary: seems a totally pointless waste of time.
>
> I guess someone in NCC was bored because I can't see any other point of this.
>
> Regards,
> Paul.
>
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