diff --git a/data-discovery/config/discovery.properties.in b/data-discovery/config/discovery.properties.in
index 49dc0fbc259a9d7a8ca045a4daa741e52b70027d..6a85146ec6373d465ec20e6a2de8e8c1b95bc8d1 100644
--- a/data-discovery/config/discovery.properties.in
+++ b/data-discovery/config/discovery.properties.in
@@ -6,7 +6,4 @@
 #db_user_name=vialactea
 #db_password=IA2lbt09
 
-# obs_publisher_did (FIXME used only in (Db)AuthPolicy while database access to convert between legacy pubdid and ivoid)
-#ivoid_authority=ia2.inaf.it
-#ivoid_resource_key=vlkb/datasets
 
diff --git a/data-discovery/src/main/java/vlkb/webapi/AuthorizationResponseSettings.java b/data-discovery/src/main/java/vlkb/webapi/AuthorizationResponseSettings.java
index 779b10e24aafba73bc73702e31c58d918b8c67c1..37d921e76c191d486121e816afa1956be297aff4 100644
--- a/data-discovery/src/main/java/vlkb/webapi/AuthorizationResponseSettings.java
+++ b/data-discovery/src/main/java/vlkb/webapi/AuthorizationResponseSettings.java
@@ -30,31 +30,7 @@ class AuthorizationResponseSettings
       }
    }
 
-
-   public static class ServiceUrls
-   {
-      private String cutoutUrl;
-      private String mergeUrl;
-      private String surveysAbsPathname;
-
-      public boolean cutoutUrlIsSet() { return (cutoutUrl != null) && cutoutUrl.trim().isEmpty(); }
-      public boolean mergeUrlIsSet()  { return (mergeUrl != null) && mergeUrl.trim().isEmpty(); }
-      public boolean surveysAbsPathnameIsSet()
-       { return (surveysAbsPathname != null) && surveysAbsPathname.trim().isEmpty(); }
-
-      public String cutoutUrl() {return cutoutUrl;}
-      public String mergeUrl()  {return mergeUrl;}
-      public String surveysAbsPathname()  {return surveysAbsPathname;}
-
-      public String toString()
-      {
-         return cutoutUrl + "   "  + mergeUrl + "   " + surveysAbsPathname;
-      }
-   }
-
-
    public DBConn     dbConn;
-   public ServiceUrls serviceUrls;
 
 
    // will not start without config-file; no reasonable code-defaults can be invented
@@ -70,9 +46,8 @@ class AuthorizationResponseSettings
             properties.load(ins);
 
             DBConn      dbConn      = loadDBConn(properties);
-            ServiceUrls serviceUrls = loadServiceUrls(properties);
 
-            return new AuthorizationResponseSettings(dbConn, serviceUrls);
+            return new AuthorizationResponseSettings(dbConn);
          }
          else
          {
@@ -89,10 +64,9 @@ class AuthorizationResponseSettings
 
 
 
-   private AuthorizationResponseSettings(DBConn dbConn, ServiceUrls serviceUrls)
+   private AuthorizationResponseSettings(DBConn dbConn)
    {
       this.dbConn      = dbConn;
-      this.serviceUrls = serviceUrls;
    }
 
 
@@ -107,16 +81,5 @@ class AuthorizationResponseSettings
       return dbConn;
    }
 
-
-   private static ServiceUrls loadServiceUrls(Properties properties)
-   {
-      ServiceUrls serviceUrls = new ServiceUrls();
-      serviceUrls.cutoutUrl = properties.getProperty("cutout_url","").strip();
-      serviceUrls.mergeUrl  = properties.getProperty("merge_url","").strip();
-      serviceUrls.surveysAbsPathname = properties.getProperty("surveys_metadata_abs_pathname","/srv/surveys/surveys_metadata.csv").strip();
-      return serviceUrls;
-   }
-
-
 }