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Re: [db-wg] Call for Volunteers for RIPE Database Working Group Co-Chair
by Randy Bush 07 May '24

07 May '24

> Peter Hessler volunteered for the working group co-chair position. cool beans! thanks peter. randy

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Proceeding with NWI-4
by David Tatlisu 02 May '24

02 May '24

Hi everyone, Following recent discussions the working group chairs have determined the new "status" option for NWI-4 garnered the most support. The working group chairs would like to ask the NCC to proceed with the implementation. Your feedback and engagement have been invaluable throughout this process, and we appreciate your continued involvement as we move forward with NWI-4. Kind regards, Denis, William, and David

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Overly specific inet6num objects by Hetzner
by Semisol 27 Apr '24

27 Apr '24

Hetzner apparently creates an `inet6num` object per dedicated server allocation (enough to get my IP blocked for 1 day trying to query them all), and it took several seconds to execute the query. > whois -r -- "-i mnt-by HOS-GUN -T inet6num" (warning: this will get your IP blocked) Some questions: 1. Is there any policy about "too specific" objects? 2. Is there any plans to restrict how many objects a single query can get at once?

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Re: [db-wg] Call for Volunteers for RIPE Database Working Group Co-Chair
by David Tatlisu 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, Peter Hessler volunteered for the working group co-chair position. He wrote: I've been active for the last few years as a member, and I would like to contribute more by helping to guide the working group. I did not receive any other emails from volunteers. Please keep in mind that the official selection will take place during the DB WG session at RIPE 88. Furthermore, I would like to thank Peter in my personal capacity for volunteering and for his many contributions to the working group. Kind regards, David RIPE DB WG co-chair

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creating a second route object
by Aleksi Suhonen 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Hi, When migrating a route from one ASN to another, the best practice is to create a second route(6) object for it with the new origin. The creation of the new object is dependent on the "mnt-routes:" field of the enclosing inetnum(6) object. Am I correct thus far? Because I'm running into an issue. When trying to create a new route object using the LIR portal, I'm getting an error that the route is not authenticated by the maintainer of _the other_ route object. Am I missing something obvious, or have I found a bug/regression? BR, -- Aleksi Suhonen () ascii ribbon campaign /\ support plain text e-mail

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Whois Inverse Query by "sponsoring-org:" Attribute
by Edward Shryane 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, Currently, Whois query does not support the "sponsoring-org:" attribute in an inverse query, i.e. to find all resources sponsored by an organisation. The "sponsoring-org:' attribute was added to the RIPE database in these policies, but there's no mention of support for inverse queries: 2012-08: https://www.ripe.net/membership/policies/proposals/2012-08/ 2014-06: https://www.ripe.net/membership/policies/proposals/2014-06/ If there is no objection, I propose for consistency to also add "sponsoring-org:" to the list of inverse query attributes. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC

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email's disappeared from RDAP output
by Ben Cartwright-Cox 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Hi everybody, I was just re-running some tests internally within bgp.tools and I've noticed that the RDAP responses from RIPE no longer include the email address of the person object. For example I used to (and expected) to get the email address in the object for https://rdap.db.ripe.net/entity/BC6775-RIPE, but it seems to have been removed from the output at some point. That does not appear to be a way to log in to authenticate trustworthiness of RDAP responses, is there any other way to get this information? I can see this information on the RIPE website ( https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=ripe&key=BC6775-RIPE&type=… ) but I do not want to scrape that, and this information is incredibly useful for helping users onboard ( with a trustworthy email address ) to services like bgp.tools. Is this an intended change? Have I done something silly? All of the above ;) ? By looking at the release info I can see it was added in November (#1333) Thanks Ben

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Call for Volunteers for RIPE Database Working Group Co-Chair
by David Tatlisu 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

********************************************************************************** Please DO NOT reply to this message if you wish to propose a volunteer. ********************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to volunteer for the role of the co-chair of the RIPE Database working group. We will have two seats to fill at RIPE 88. Anyone can volunteer for this role. You can also nominate others. Please send a mail to db-wg-volunteers(a)tatlisu.eu before 22 April. Please DO NOT send your name directly to the DB WG mailing list. Please include your motivation and any ideas you might have for the future of the RIPE Database WG. I will then publish the list of volunteers to this mailing list no later than 24 April. Any statements of support on the mailing list are welcome. However, the selection will take place during the DB WG session at RIPE 88. You can find a job description for RIPE WG Chairs here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/wgchair-job-description You can find an e-learning course about the role and responsibilities of RIPE Working Chairs here: https://academy.ripe.net/enrol/index.php?id=16 Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions about the role or the process. Kind regards, David RIPE DB WG co-chair

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Whois Release 1.111
by Edward Shryane 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, RIPE Database release 1.111 has been deployed to the Release Candidate environment for testing. We plan to deploy to production on Thursday 28th March. The 1.111 release has the following main changes: * Don't send email to undeliverable addresses (#1404) * Add email unsubscribe support This release is *combined* with the 1.110 release, which we had planned to deploy in March. However as we have an upcoming deadline in April to comply with email anti-spam requirements, we decided to combine the releases. We will explain those changes separately. The 1.110 release has the following main changes: * Implemented RDAP Extension for Geofeed Data (draft-ietf-regext-rdap-geofeed-01) (#1366) * Improve RDAP documentation (#1373, #1388) * Implement RDAP RIR Search - Basic Search Features (#1379) * Enable e-mail in RDAP entity responses (in top level vcard) (#1384) * Add geofeed as a link to conform with v1 draft (#1374) * Separate secure connector for Client Certificate authentication (#1390) * Use clientip flag as remote address from trusted source (#1391) * Redirect HTTP(S) requests to whois.ripe.net to the DB web application query page (#1396) * Elasticsearch refreshed after update/create (#1367) * Document inet6num assignment-size maximum prefix (#1375) * Daily limit is configurable (#1401) The release notes are on the website: https://rc.db.ripe.net/docs/Release-Notes/#ripe-database-release-1-111 More information on the Release Candidate environment can be found on our website: https://apps.db.ripe.net/docs/Release-Notes/ The data in the RC environment is a dummified copy of production from 19th February. Please let us know if you find any issues with this release in the RC environment. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC

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Complying with Mail Provider Requirements When Sending Mail from Whois
by Edward Shryane 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, As part of the Whois 1.111 release planned for 28th March, we will make changes to comply with new requirements for bulk email senders from two of the large email providers, namely Google [1][2] and Yahoo [3][4]. The RIPE NCC are reviewing these requirements across all our services. Please refer to the RIPE Labs article published today [5]. We send a lot of mail from Whois, on average 30,000 messages a day (comprised mostly of update acknowledgements and notifications) which qualifies us as a bulk sender. We want to comply with these requirements as we depend on email for notifications but also to listen to our users wishes. There are nearly 900,000 email addresses in the RIPE Database. 65,000 are hosted by Google and 5,000 by Yahoo, so these addresses are directly affected by these requirements. In this release, we will implement mail bounce detection (i.e. an outgoing message has permanently failed delivery) and also unsubscription (i.e. one-click unsubscribe from a mail client). Once an address is undeliverable or unsubscribed, we will not send further Whois update acknowledgements or notifications to that address. However we will continue to send targeted notifications where required by RIPE policy (e.g. abuse-c validation, RIPE-NONAUTH route object cleanup etc.). Notification attributes in the RIPE Database (i.e. irt-nfy, mnt-nfy, notify, ref-nfy, upd-to) will be affected, as we will no longer send update notifications to an unsubscribed or undeliverable address. In update acknowledgements we will warn if any address is undeliverable or unsubscribed. Once unsubscribed, if you want to re-subscribe, for now you will need to contact RIPE NCC support [6]. The changes can already be tested in our Release Candidate environment [7]. We welcome feedback from the community. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC --- References 1. Google announcement: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-prote… 2. Google email sender guidelines: https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126?hl=en 3. Yahoo announcement: https://blog.postmaster.yahooinc.com/post/730172167494483968/more-secure-le… 4. Yahoo sender best practices: https://senders.yahooinc.com/best-practices/ 5. Enhancing Email Delivery at the RIPE NCC: https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/enhancing-email-delivery-at-the-ripe-n… 6. Contacting the RIPE NCC https://www.ripe.net/support/contact/ 7. Release candidate environment https://apps.db.ripe.net/docs/Release-Notes/#release-candidate-environment

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