[arin-tech-discuss] Orphaned Customer records

[Andy Newton]

Mike,

We have no regular processes to delete orphaned customer records. In our analysis of the growth of our data set, orphaned records do not constitute an area of excessive growth and therefore instituting a regular process to purge them has not been implemented.

Once unlinked from a network, a customer record cannot be easily found except for by a lookup of its handle. There is no API function to list orphaned records.

I hope that answers your questions.

Andy Newton,
ARIN

On Jan 2, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Mike Joseph <mjoseph at google.com<mailto:mjoseph at google.com>> wrote:

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<mailto:mjoseph at google.com> |         +1-650-214-4543

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