July 2014 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

<auto-dbm@ripe.net> is slow this afternoon.
by RIPE Database Administration 17 May '18

17 May '18

Dear Colleagues, Because of a very high level of use this afternoon, the response time of <auto-dbm(a)ripe.net> is longer than normal. I have made contact with those who are responsible and I expect the situation to improve as the machine works through the queue. Please be patient. Obviously we at the RIPE NCC Database Group are continuously working to make the performance of the database as good as possible. However, we cannot make improvements in zero time. We thank you for your co-operation up to now and we ask for your continued co-operation so that everyone receives the best possible service. If you have anymore questions, please contact <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Ambrose Magee ____________________________ RIPE Database Administration.

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Draft minutes of RIPE 67 meeting
by Nigel Titley 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Please find draft minutes of the DB-WG meeting held in Athens today. Comments, complaint, misrepresentations etc, to me Nigel

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Proposal to remove "referral-by" attribute in "mntner" object or make it optional
by Martin Tõnusoo 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hello, "referral-by" attribute(defined in RFC2725) is mandatory in "mntner" object: [martint@ ~/ripe-db]$ whois -BHrh whois.ripe.net -t mntner | grep referral-by referral-by: [mandatory] [single] [ ] [martint@ ~/ripe-db]$ I checked the db-wg mailing-list archive since January 2000 and only discussion I found regarding this attribute was from Engin Gunduz(former RIPE NCC Senior Software Engineer) in June 2004: [martint@ ~/ripe-db]$ for year in {2000..2014}; do for month in January February March April May June July August September October November December; do wget -q --no-check-certificate https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/$(printf '%s-%s.txt.gz\n' "$year" "$month"); done; done [martint@ ~/ripe-db]$ zgrep -Hi "referral-by" * 2000-August.txt.gz:-irb (or -ireferral-by) <maintainer name> 2000-August.txt.gz:Returns all objects whose referral-by attribute matches the query 2001-August.txt.gz:referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2001-May.txt.gz:If you mean referral-by, it points to mntner handle, mandatory in mntner 2003-April.txt.gz:referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2003-April.txt.gz:referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2003-August.txt.gz:> referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2003-December.txt.gz: referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz: referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz: referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz: referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz: referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz:> referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz:> referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz:> > referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-December.txt.gz:> > referral-by: MAINT-RGNET 2003-July.txt.gz:referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2004-April.txt.gz:referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2004-June.txt.gz:referral-by: [mandatory] [single] [inverse key] 2004-June.txt.gz:referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2004-June.txt.gz:Subject: [db-wg] Proposed Change 2004.2: Removal of "referral-by:" Attribute 2004-June.txt.gz:[2004.2] Removal of "referral-by:" Attribute from the MNTNER Object 2004-June.txt.gz:Remove the "referral-by:" attribute from the MNTNER objects' schema. This 2004-June.txt.gz:The "referral-by:" attribute was introduced into MNTNER objects when the 2004-June.txt.gz:"referral-by:" is defined in RFC2725: 2004-June.txt.gz: referral-by This attribute is required in the maintainer object. It 2004-June.txt.gz: referral-by. An auth-override can only be added to a maintainer 2004-June.txt.gz: those identified by the maintainer in the referral-by have 2004-June.txt.gz: "referral-by" attribute is now mandatory in the "maintainer" object 2004-June.txt.gz: referenced by a "referral-by" attribute elsewhere. 2004-June.txt.gz:The RIPE NCC introduced the "referral-by:" attribute as a place-holder, 2004-May.txt.gz:referral-by: [mandatory] [single] [inverse key] 2005-May.txt.gz:> referral-by: [mandatory] [single] [inverse key] 2005-May.txt.gz:> > referral-by: [mandatory] [single] [inverse key] 2005-November.txt.gz:>referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2005-November.txt.gz:> >referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2005-November.txt.gz:> > >referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2007-July.txt.gz:> referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2007-July.txt.gz:>> referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2007-June.txt.gz: referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2007-June.txt.gz: referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2007-June.txt.gz:> referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2007-June.txt.gz:> referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT 2012-April.txt.gz:referral-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT 2013-March.txt.gz:referral-by: TRUBNIKOV-MNT 2013-March.txt.gz:> referral-by: TRUBNIKOV-MNT 2013-March.txt.gz:> referral-by: TRUBNIKOV-MNT 2013-March.txt.gz:>> referral-by: TRUBNIKOV-MNT 2013-March.txt.gz:>>> referral-by: TRUBNIKOV-MNT [martint@ ~/ripe-db]$ He also proposed to remove the "referral-by" attribute, but there was no feedback to his e-mail. One can read his e-mail here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2004-June/002797.html In addition, while RIPE database manual says that "referral-by attribute may never be altered after the addition of the maintainer", one can easily change it at least in current RIPE database version. Is the "referral-by" attribute obsolete? Or is it needed in some specific situation? If not, I propose to remove the "referral-by" attribute in "mntner" object or at least make it optional. WBR, Martin Tonusoo -------------------------- LINXTELECOM www.linxtelecom.com -------------------------- NOC 24/7: +372 622 3300

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last-modified:, a succesor to changed:
by Job Snijders 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

Dear DB Working Group, Assessing the "freshness" of database objects can be a useful component in many business processes, but as it stands today the "changed:" attribute is severely crippled: Eleanor:~ job$ whois -h whois.ripe.net AS15562 | grep changed Eleanor:~ job$ whois -h whois.radb.net AS15562 | grep changed changed: unread(a)ripe.net 20000101 Eleanor:~ job$ Fantastic! Now we are absolutely none the wiser. :-) I propose that we introduce a new attribute called "last-modified" as a replacement for functionality offered by past implementations of "changed:". The "last-modified" attribute is set by the whois server software and represents the date and time at which the last succesful modification was received by the server. When a user submits an update for an object in which the attribute is present, the server software will ignore the attribute, insert its own attribute with the current time, and present a warning to the user that the user's version of "last-modified" was ignored. The "last-modified" attribute should be presented by the server software in all types of objects (autnums, poems, etc) for which the server is responsible (e.g. do not touch foreign or mirrored objects). The date and time are represented following the ISO 8601 [1] profile for complete date plus hours, minutes and seconds, always expressed in UTC, including the special UTC designator 'Z'. The "last-modified" attribute should be presented above, but close to the "source:" attribute. The advantage is that the date and time are both human readable and computer parsable! A valid example "last-modified" attribute would be: last-modified: 2014-04-15T13:15:30Z I look forward to the group's feedback! Also, I'm interested in how people would use this attribute in their workflows or automation. Kind regards, Job [1] - https://xkcd.com/1179/

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RIPE Database Release 1.75
by Denis Walker 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the RIPE Database software release 1.75 to the Release Candidate (RC) environment. Detailed information about features, changes and how this release might affect your operations, are available in the release notes: https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.75 The main feature of this release is that we have implemented the changes required within the RIPE Database, as part of the implementation for the accepted RIPE Policy Proposal 2014-01, 'Abandoning the Minimum Allocation Size for IPV4'. These changes are detailed in the release notes. This release also fixes a number of issues, described within the release notes. More information about the RC environment is available online: https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/rc-release-candidate-envir… We look forward to any questions or comments you might have. Regards, Denis Walker RIPE NCC

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bug fix release 1.74.1 deployed
by Denis Walker 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, After the deployment of RIPE Database software release 1.74, a bug was found affecting the NRTM service. This has been fixed in a bug release 1.74.1 that was deployed to production today. If you do not use the NRTM service then this does not affect you. If you do use it, please read more details in the 1.74.1 Release Notes: https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1-74… In these notes we raise awareness of a possible impact and provide options for overcoming such a situation. Regards, Denis Walker RIPE NCC

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RIPE Database Release 1.74
by Denis Walker 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the RIPE Database software release 1.74 to the Release Candidate (RC) environment. For information about features, changes and how this release might affect your operations, please see the release notes: https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.74… Major features introduced in this release include the: - Removal of generated "remarks:" from AUT-NUM objects - Change of syntax of the "role:" attribute - Prevention of the removal of "abuse-c:" when linked to a resource object This release also fixes a number of issues. More details are available in the release notes. More information about the RC environment is available online: https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/rc-release-candidate-envir… We look forward to any questions or comments you might have. Regards, Denis Walker RIPE NCC

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Revising the RIPE Database Documentation
by Denis Walker 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is currently revising the RIPE Database documentation. We have outlined our planning and the goals for this project in a RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fatemah_mafi/revising-the-ripe-database-docum… Please send any feedback or specific content requests to the Database Working Group Mailing List by Wednesday, 30 July 2014 so that we can incorporate your input into our planning. Regards, Denis Walker RIPE NCC

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