[db-wg] usage of LIR-PARTITIONED status

2018-12-19 Thread Alexander Stranzky via db-wg
Hello, recently I stumbled upon some less-used status of the INETNUM object, namely LIR-PARTITIONED PA & LIR-PARTITIONED PI. Since there is no difference in the docs (https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/ripe-database-documentation/rpsl-object-types/4-2-descriptions-of

[db-wg] PERSON objects in the RIPE Database

2018-09-20 Thread Alexander Stranzky via db-wg
Am 20.09.18 um 15:40 schrieb denis walker: > Hi Alexander > > You may well be right but duplicated personal data in a public database > for 'convenience' is probably not acceptable. Hi Dennis, I totally agree with you. But unfortunately it's difficult to force ISPs to clean up their data. Regar

[db-wg] PERSON objects in the RIPE Database

2018-09-20 Thread Alexander Stranzky via db-wg
On 20/09/2018 15:04, denis walker via db-wg wrote: > Colleagues, > > I will start with a blunt question, then give some arguments for my > concern. In May the RIPE NCC told me there are?more than 2 million > PERSON objects in the RIPE Database. That is almost 25% of the objects > in the database. W

[db-wg] Updating the database via HTTP API - best practices

2018-04-12 Thread Alexander Stranzky via db-wg
> What is the current best practice for handling Auth on HTTP API updates to > the RIPE database, and is there a roadmap for change that I can consider as I > write my tools to publish and maintain objects? Same situation here on my end. Anyways, I'd love to have an authentication method that u

[db-wg] Validation on "org-name:" syntax (double spaces and newlines)

2017-11-13 Thread Alexander Stranzky via db-wg
Am 12.11.17 um 12:00 schrieb db-wg-requ...@ripe.net: > Out of 114181 ORGANISATION objects, 112 objects use multiple consecutive > whitespace in the ?org-name:? attribute and only 1 uses a multi-line value. > While this is a tiny fraction these objects are a bit problematic to us when > we ver

Re: [db-wg] Foreign ROUTE objects in RIPE Database - final decision?

2017-10-09 Thread Alexander Stranzky via db-wg
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