Dear DB-WG,

Some colleagues are working to address the never-ending-story of 'where
the heck are IPs geographically?'. This problem space has been brought
up numerous times in the Database Working Group, but we never managed to
solve it. As with all compsci problems adding a layer of indirection can
help ;-)

This current draft suggests overloading the RPSL 'remarks:' field with a
structured attribute value, however I suspect we would do ourselves a
disservice to overload a 'remarks:' field.

Instead it would be better to add a 'geofeed:' attribute to the RPSL
inetnum/inetnum6 class dictionary, which as value contains a URL with
http or https scheme.

The draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ymbk-opsawg-finding-geofeeds

The value of the attribute could be validated using something like
"org.apache.commons.validator.UrlValidator", the attribute would look
like this, only valid in the inetnum/inet6num:

    "geofeed:   [optional]   [single]     [ ]"

Example object:

    inetnum:        192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.255
    netname:        EXAMPLE
    country:        NL
    geofeed:        https://example.com/geofeed.csv
    ... snip ...
    source:         RIPE

What do others think?

Kind regards,

Job

ps. In IRRd v4.2 support for the 'geofeed:' attribute will be added
https://github.com/irrdnet/irrd/issues/396