[arin-tech-discuss] Orphaned Customer records

[Mike Joseph]

Hey folks,

I have a few questions about Customer records in the ARIN DB and how
orphaned ones are handled.  Specifically, I'm asking about Customer records
in the following situations:

   - Customer record created (POST /rest/net/PARENTNETHANDLE/customer) but
   no reassignment made
   - Simple reassignment deleted (DELETE /rest/net/NETHANDLE) *without*
   explicit deletion of the customer record (DELETE
   /rest/customer/CUSTOMERHANDLE)

I know that the documentation admonishes developers not to get into this
situation and to be fastidious about cleaning up Customer records, but of
course it can happen.  And I've tested in both scenarios (knowing the
Customer record ID #) that the record persists at least for a while.

So, my questions are:

   1. What happens to these orphaned records?
   2. Does ARIN make any effort to remove them?
   3. If I wanted to clean ours up, how would I even find them?  I can't
   find an API call to find Customer records by NET.

Thanks.

-MJ

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Mike Joseph | Manager, Sustaining Engineering & Operations |
mjoseph at google.com | +1-650-214-4543
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