Hi Madhvi,

thanks for your email.
it corrects my perception. [and i am happy that i brought it up]

I guess that we can expect both items to be done within the coming week.

Regards,
Frank

On 04/10/2020 20:45, Madhvi Gokool wrote:
> 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 Also: if it involves the manual (which was noted to have outdated info),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 ([email protected]).
>>
>> 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'
>>
>>
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