Dear working group,

We deployed version 1.87.4 to production earlier this week with two fixes for 
business rules that impacted a number of users:

1) It was not possible to set "mnt-lower:" on INET6NUM objects with status 
"ALLOCATED-BY-RIR". This restriction existed when object editors were used, but 
was ignored at that time because object editors used a different authorisation 
method. The restriction has now been removed.

2) The fix in 1.87.3 allowed "netname:" to be changed on objects with status 
"ASSIGNED PI", but unfortunately not for other "ASSIGNED" objects. We have made 
sure that the restriction only applies to INET(6)NUM objects for allocations 
done by the RIPE NCC.

To summarise the following business rules apply to objects that are 
'co-maintained', i.e. allocations, assignments or legacy space that is 
registered with RIPE NCC:

= Allocations

INETNUM objects with "status:" ALLOCATED PA, ALLOCATED PI or ALLOCATED 
UNSPECIFIED, and INET6NUM objects with "status:" ALLOCATED-BY-RIR

Restricted attributes: netname, org, sponsoring-org, status, mnt-by (you can 
only change your default maintainer through the LIR Portal)

= Assignments

INET(6)NUM objects with at least one RIPE-NCC-XYZ-MNT and "status:" ASSIGNED 
PI, or ASSIGNED ANYCAST

Restricted attributes: org, sponsoring-org, status, mnt-by (you cannot add or 
remove RIPE-NCC-XYZ-MNT) and mnt-lower

= Legacy space registered with RIPE NCC

INETNUM objects at least one RIPE-NCC-X-MNT and "status:" LEGACY 

Restricted attributes: org, sponsoring-org, status, mnt-by (you cannot add or 
remove RIPE-NCC-XYZ-MNT)

In addition to this, all objects described above can only be deleted by RIPE 
NCC.


I hope this makes it clear how we apply business to these objects. If you have 
any questions or comments, please let us know.



Kind regards,

Tim Bruijnzeels
Assistant Manager Software Engineering
RIPE NCC Database Group

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