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?
- Hierarchical names can be removed, mainly for simplicity.
I got lost on this one. Do you mean "can be removed" or "have been removed"?
- 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'. 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? I think this is a good proposal for an organisation object in the RIPE Database, Joao