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?

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.