Sanjaya, On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 09:22 Europe/Amsterdam, Sanjaya wrote:
May be included in any other object type. It points to an existing organisation object representing the entity that holds the resource. The value of this attribute is the ID of the organisation object. It is mandatory in the aut-num objects, and inetnum and inet6num objects with "ALLOCATED-BY-IANA", "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR", "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR NON-PORTABLE", "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR PORTABLE" and "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR UNSPECIFIED" values. It is optional in all other objects, and it is single valued in all objects.
As we're talking about the use of the organisation object, can we use it to show delegation path (instead of overloading the status attribute above) in a resource object (i.e. aut-num, inetnum and inet6num). For example, if querying an inetnum, you get this response:
as a user of the DB, though I see the theoretical beauty of your proposal, I would rather have a concise definition in the inetnum object status attribute than a heap of output that will take some time to make sense of, not to mention having to scroll back and forth just to see the answer to a simple question. So I prefer the proposal as it is in this respect. Joao
% whois 192.168.86.251
inetnum: 192.168.86.0 - 192.168.86.255 netname: EXAMPLE-NET-86 descr: Sample network registry: ORG-RIPE1-RIPE custodian: ORG-RSIS54-RIPE country: NL admin-c: JE1-RIPE tech-c: JE2-RIPE [...] source: RIPE
organisation: ORG-RIPE1-RIPE org-name: RIPE NCC Operations org-type: RIR address: Singel 258 address: 1016 AB Amsterdam address: The Netherlands country: NL phone: +31 20 535 4444 fax-no: +31 20 535 4445 e-mail: ops@ripe.net admin-c: AP110-RIPE tech-c: OPS4-RIPE [...] source: RIPE
organisation: ORG-RSIS54-RIPE org-name: Random Street Internet Services org-type: LIR descr: An example organisation address: Random St. address: The Netherlands phone: +31 123 4567 fax-no: +31 123 4568 e-mail: contact@example-org.net admin-c: EXAM1-RIPE tech-c: EXAM2-RIPE [...] source: RIPE
person: John Example nic-hdl: JE1-RIPE [...] source: RIPE
person: John Example Jr nic-hdl: JE2-RIPE [...] source: RIPE
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