Dear all! This is the 2nd draft of the proposed agenda for the January 1997 DB-WG Meeting in Amsterdam. I forgot to include the proposed DB copyright item in the 1st draft, my apologies. There's a couple of additional minor changes. As usual any and all comments and input appreciated. See you in Amsterdam, Wilfried. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proposed Agenda for the Database Working Group Meeting RIPE-26, January 1997, Amsterdam 2nd Draft, 8.1.1997 A. Administrative stuff (W. Woeber, chair) - volunteering of the scribe - WG-agenda bashing B. DB-SW status report by the RIPE NCC (DB-SW maintainers, RIPE-NCC) - recent changes - recent bug fixes and development (if any) - feedback and experience C. RIPE-DB copyright (D. Karrenberg, RIPE NCC) - proposal to include copyright line in whois output D. Report on DB evaluation by VUA - consistency - usage E. Reports (D. Kessens, ISI) - on RPSL - on 'ride' (registry data exchange format) F. Documentation (DB-SW maintainers, RIPE-NCC) - current status, progress, review, test-driving - availability G. New functionality, proposals, reports - IPv6 object proposal (D. Kessens, ISI) - hierarchical authorisation for route: obj (J. Schmitz, DFN NOC) (**note: this item might be discussed in the Routing-WG and consequently be moved to agenda item Y.) - short report on improving DB security and authentication (**to be confirmed, J. Schmitz, DFN NOC) - extension for inet-rtr: obj (tentatively, W.Woeber/E.J.Bos/et.al.) - extending the list of attributes that can be used in -i lookup? - improved url handling (in HTML interface) - handling of timestamps (changed:, different time-zones, UTC,...) - report on/review of the consolidated wish-list Y. General input from other WGs Z. AOB -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4065822 355 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4065822 170 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : NIC: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------