Hi Joao, On 2003-08-25 14:34:18 +0200, Joao Damas wrote:
I think this proposal is very good.
On Monday, Aug 25, 2003, at 12:27 Europe/Amsterdam, DB-News wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
[apologies for duplicate messages]
Following discussions at the RIPE NCC about a new Whois Database object, the organisation object, we have modified the previous proposal that you can find at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/db-wg/2003/msg00013.html
The main changes from the previous proposal are:
- a "country:" attribute is added. - "org-type:" and "org-name:" attributes are added, and "organisation:" attribute is now a NIC handle, which will be automatically assigned during the creation of the object. The motivation for this is explained in Section 3 of the proposal.
A very welcome modification. The last thing the RIPE DB needs to get dragged into are trade mark disputes about object names. Could it be made a bit stricter and allow only for auto-generation of organisation NIC handles?
Yes, this is actually the case. Quoting from Section 3 of the proposal: Organisation object IDs are auto-generated similar to the way person/role "nic-hdl:" attributes are auto-generated. The user has to specify the ID of an organisation object as ORG-AUTO-<digit> during creation of the object, then it will be assigned an appropriate ID. The organisation ID is assigned using the "org-name:" attribute of the object. The user can specify the letter combination he/she prefers. For example if the user wants TTR as the letter combination, in the organisation ID, then ORG-AUTO-1TTR should be put into "organisation:" attribute during the creation of the object.
- Hierarchical names can be removed, mainly for simplicity.
I got lost on this one. Do you mean "can be removed" or "have been removed"?
Oops, it's meant to be "have been removed". Sorry for that...
- Differing query results on the whois server introduced in section 5. According to this, the relevant organisation objects are appended to the query results (because the organisation that holds the resource is at least as important as the person/role objects mentioned in the resource object).
This is good. Also being able to disable it with '-r'.
Right, this is also in the proposal: "This behaviour can be disabled by using the '-r' flag in the query." in Section 5.
Will the database enforce any restrictions on the assignment of org-types, so that new IANAs and new RIRs can't be created, with potential for introducing confusion?
Although this is not mentioned in the proposal, yes, the DB software will enforce restrictions. organisation objects with type IANA, RIR, NIR and LIR can only be created by the NCC.
I think this is a good proposal for an organisation object in the RIPE Database, Joao
Thanks a lot for feedback, Best regards, -- Engin Gunduz RIPE NCC Database Group