<div dir="auto">Sorry to interrupt the conversation, supporting Ken's 3rd option, to check the integrity of the file we can use hashes to confirm that the data has not been edited. But the hash needs to be checked twice, before upload and after upload and match the value accordingly. Just a thought, open to suggestions.<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Afifa</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, 14:43 Andrew McConachie, <<a href="mailto:andrew.mcconachie@icann.org">andrew.mcconachie@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 6 Jul 2021, at 17:51, Ken Renard <<a href="mailto:kdrenard2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kdrenard2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">3.  User runs the tool and output is generated.  Users are then asked</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">(and encouraged) to take an independent action to publish the data</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">(such as run a publish_data.sh script).  The user may review the data</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">before executing the action to publish.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Hi Ken, <div><br><div>This one is tricky from a quality control standpoint. </div><div><br></div><div>First, because it requires that the tool store data locally somewhere, and then be able to retrieve it later. This can break for a number of reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, it gives the user a chance to edit the file before it is sent. With this choice we’re going to end up with lots of user edited data entries, or failed data push events where the user tries to edit the data and then breaks the format of it. Thereby breaking the whole process.</div><div><br></div><div>--Andrew</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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