On 4 Aug 2012, at 19:25, Nick Hilliard <nick@netability.ie> wrote:
It's certainly been discussed before without any particular conclusion, but I didn't gather from the various WG discussions - either at RIPE meetings or on the mailing lists - that it stalled due to privacy concerns. Do you have a reference for this?
First thing I could find is a message by David Freedman from July last year: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2011-July/003745.html
After the feedback from the DB-WG Meeting in Vienna last week, I'd like to = bring this back to the list.
I'd like to see the RegID (or equivalent) displayed for all resources in th= e database, this will help us identify the holder of:
* PA Allocations (currently found in alloclist , currently attached Org-= ID) * PA Assignments (only found through less specific aggregate inetnum an= d as per above) * PI Assignments (not found at all) * Autonomous systems (not found at all?)
The privacy issues concerning publishing are currently being investigated b= y the NCC and a number of people have expressed concern about revealing com= mercial relationships, especially with regards to revealing the sponsoring LIR for a particular en= d-user resource (though, I did make the point that you can ask the NCC a di= rect question about who the sponsoring LIR is and lack of policy means they reveal this).
The technical issue concerning publishing , is that using the RegID may not= be the best idea, the NCC say "It is for internal use" (but it is the only= thing I see in my LIR portal?), why not use the OrgID (but this doesn't relate to the RegID , how do I link this to a bone = fide LIR?) , one issue with using the regID over the orgID may be that the = regID would simply be represented in the database as a string , since there is no related object to tie it to (which= may be an undesirable outcome).
Dave.