[rpd] Corrupted file attachments

[Timothy Ola Akinfenwa]

Andrew,
There is really no need to preempt the report of the investigation. The CEO
was very clear that these were only preliminary results while investigation
continues. Patience is really a very good and important virtue!

Cheers!
Ti</>

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 2:18 PM Andrew Alston <
Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:

> Ok,
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> So what you are telling us is that the attachment data for approximately
> 570 IPv4 prefix’s, 58 ipv6 prefix’s and 320 ASN’s is effectively missing
> (Looking at data from 2005 -> 2009)?
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> Thanks
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> Andrew
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> *From:* Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net>
> *Sent:* 04 December 2018 16:09
> *To:* rpd List <rpd at afrinic.net>
> *Subject:* [rpd] Corrupted file attachments
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> > On 1 Dec 2018, at 12:39, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Timothy,
> >
> > AfriNIC HAS *NEVER* publicly acknowledged the loss of a large portion of
> attachments associated with application documents.
>
> It came to my attention on Friday 30 November 2018 that there are problems
> with file attachments in AFRINIC’s records. Since then, I have instituted
> an investigation. I can report some preliminary results.
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> 1. In the “Support requests” part of the MyAfrinic portal, the file
> download interface is not working correctly. The underlying data in the
> ticketing system is still present, and we will correct the problem in
> MyAfrinic.
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> 2. In the ticketing system, many file attachments from the year 2009 and
> earlier cannot be opened. The files can be downloaded from the ticketing
> system, and the files appear to contain reasonable contents when viewed in
> a “hexdump” format, but the files cannot be opened by the relevant
> applications. We have not found similar problems with attachments from 2010
> and later. We are still investigating.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan Barrett
> CEO, AFRINIC
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