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- As additional safeguard when deletion of internal topics is requested, even when a requester is authorized (i.e. has an ACL allowing to deleted).
- A policy would be useful to avoid the deletion in this case, e.g. deleting Kafka internal topics
__consumer_offsetsor application internal topics like Connect internal topics. - Authorizer implementations tend to prefer coarse grained permissions to reduce the number of ACLs (e.g. Confluent RBAC which includes Delete as part of ResourceOwner) which includes both permissions to create and delete, making it harder to rely only on the Authorizer.
- A policy would be useful to avoid the deletion in this case, e.g. deleting Kafka internal topics
- To validate against a registry when a topic is deleted, e.g. for cross domain usage.
- To implement retry-based or flag-based mechanisms to safeguard topic deletion.
There has been related KIPs that included this proposal:
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