Hi,

I’m out of office till 22 August. Any RIPE Labs related queries can be sent to 
l...@ripe.net and one of my colleagues will get back to you.

Cheers,
Alun

On 22 Aug 2022, at 07:54, Alun Davies via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I’m out of office till 22 August. Any RIPE Labs related queries can be sent 
> to l...@ripe.net and one of my colleagues will get back to you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alun
> 
> On 22 Aug 2022, at 07:52, Alun Davies via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m out of office till 22 August. Any RIPE Labs related queries can be sent 
> to l...@ripe.net and one of my colleagues will get back to you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alun
> 
> On 22 Aug 2022, at 07:51, Alun Davies via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m out of office till 22 August. Any RIPE Labs related queries can be sent 
> to l...@ripe.net and one of my colleagues will get back to you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alun
> 
> On 22 Aug 2022, at 07:42, Alun Davies via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’m out of office till 22 August. Any RIPE Labs related queries can be sent 
> to l...@ripe.net and one of my colleagues will get back to you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alun
> 
> On 29 Jul 2022, at 11:22, denis walker via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Massimo
> 
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 04:11, Massimo Candela via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On 28/07/2022 15:52, Randy Bush via db-wg wrote:
> and, being a researcher, i have no clue about
> this research spin at all.
> 
> 
> I also don't understand where the research context is coming from.
> Usually, researchers don't have the need to correct the geolocation of
> so many prefixes to require something like geofeeds.
> 
> 
> I think this was an attempt by the legal team to find some way to
> justify having the "geofeed:" attribute based on the current defined
> purposes.
> 
> 
> And I really don't understand why the geofeed attribute would not be
> covered by the current purpose of the RIPE database, as described in the
> article 3.
> 
> Geofeed matches "Facilitating coordination between network operators
> (network problem resolution, outage notification etc.)"
> 
> Geofeed wants to correct geolocation problems. The geofeed attribute is
> exactly a way to "coordinate between network operators" (with, or
> without, the intermediation of geolocation providers). Geolocation
> problems impact the availability/performance of content/services. The
> medium is the network. Geolocation problems are network problems.
> 
> No, "geofeed:" is not covered by this purpose. It may be provided by
> network operators but it is not 'used' by them. It has nothing to do
> with 'network problem resolution, outage notification etc'. It is, as
> I suggested, data that is used by external services. As are all the
> other items I mentioned in that list.
> 
> 
> 
> On 28/07/2022 16:58, Laurent Pellegrino via db-wg wrote:
> 
> It's sad to see real solutions around geolocation (which helps users
> in many ways) overthought and killed in the eggs.
> 
> In general, the solution has not been killed.
> 
> It would have been nice to have a neat "geofeed" attribute. However,
> geofeeds are successfully used with remarks in LACNIC, APNIC, AFRINIC,
> and RIPE. Comments are used in ARIN.
> 
> Add a remark/comment "Geofeed https://url-to-my-file"; and you are good
> to go. At the moment most of the data is produced with this approach anyway.
> 
> This is not the way to go. We should never accept the overloading of a
> free text attribute with structured data as a solution to any problem.
> Let's fix the core problem and bring the purposes into line with the
> contents and usage of the database.
> 
> cheers
> denis
> co-chair DB-WG
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> Massimo
> 
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