Hello Frank The commitment was for staff to provide a definition of the org-types to the database working group and I further added that the definitions should then be made available when we perform a whois query. This way, they shall be publicly available to any person wanting to know what each org type means .
Logically it shall happen as follows :- 1. The org-types definition will be provided to the database working group 2. The whois database will be updated with the definitions so that they are then visible through the query whois -v organisation Regards Madhvi On 04/10/2020 9:10 PM, Frank Habicht wrote: > Hi all, > > so, in order to try to start chop away from all the pending items from > the meeting: > > there was a request (from SM, iirc) about the exact definitions what the > different 'org-type:' attribute values are and what the definitions are, > when to use which. > > Iirc, Madhvi responded that these can be obtained through whois queries. > > I just tried and reached as far as getting an (apparently authoritative) > list of possible values. (below) > > I didn't find any definitions as to which value is to be used for which > ORG. Can staff (maybe Madhvi) point us in the right direction? > Also: if it involves the manual (which was noted to have outdated info), > please confirm how current the referenced info/definitions are. > > Thanks, > Frank > > > [frank@fisi ~]$ whoisaf -- -v organisation > [Querying whois.afrinic.net] > [whois.afrinic.net] > % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. > > The organisation class: > > The organisation class provides information identifying > an organisation such as a company, charity or university, > that is a holder of a network resource whose data is stored > in the whois database. > Organisation objects are not created automatically, but are forwarded > to AfriNIC Database Administration (afrinic-...@rafrinic.net). > > organisation: [mandatory] [single] [primary/lookup key] > org-name: [mandatory] [single] [lookup key] > org-type: [mandatory] [single] [ ] > descr: [optional] [multiple] [ ] > country: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] > remarks: [optional] [multiple] [ ] > address: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] > phone: [optional] [multiple] [ ] > fax-no: [optional] [multiple] [ ] > e-mail: [mandatory] [multiple] [lookup key] > org: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] > admin-c: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] > tech-c: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] > ref-nfy: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] > mnt-ref: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] > notify: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] > abuse-mailbox: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] > mnt-by: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] > changed: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] > source: [mandatory] [single] [ ] > > The content of the attributes of the organisation class are defined below: > > ..... > org-type > > Specifies the type of the organisation. The possible values are 'IANA' > for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, 'RIR' for Regional Internet > Registries, 'NIR' for National Internet Registries and 'LIR' for Local > Internet Registries. > > org-type can have one of these values: > > o 'IANA' > o 'RIR' > o 'LIR' > o 'EU-PI' > o 'EU-AS' > o 'MEMBER-ONLY' > o 'CLOSED' > o 'INACTIVE-MEMBER' > o 'NON-REGISTRY' > o 'OTHER' > o 'REGISTERED-MEMBER' > o 'ASSOCIATE-MEMBER' > > > _______________________________________________ > DBWG mailing list > DBWG@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg _______________________________________________ DBWG mailing list DBWG@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg
