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 Also: if it involves the manual (which was noted to have outdated info), 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' >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DBWG mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg > > > > _______________________________________________ > DBWG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg > _______________________________________________ DBWG mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg
