November 2016 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

WG Chairs Selection
by Piotr Strzyzewski 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Dear DB-WG Members As agreed during DB-WG session at RIPE69 Meeting in London on 06.11.2014, the WG Chair Selection procedure is executed at yearly intervals. This means that it is about time to run it for the very first time. This is the call for interested parties. Interested parties have 2 weeks to make their interest known on this mailing list. All members of the community are encourage to make a discussion and express their approval or otherwise of the presented candidates. After two weeks the chairs will declare consensus. Since there is a limit of 3 co-chairs, if at the end of the discussion phase there will be more than 3 proposed co-chairs then a call will be made for any of the candidates to withdraw. If there still will be more than 3 candidates then names will be put into a hat and the first three names drawn from the hat will take on the role of chairs for the next 12 months. All three of present co-chairs expressed their interest in being co-chairs for another term. All the best, Job, Nigel & Piotr -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski(a)polsl.pl

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Fwd: WG Chairs Selection
by Horváth Ágoston János 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

While operational experience is indeed important, the role of a chair is different from a role of a president. I find that a chair will need to invest time, a lot of time, into bringing some much-needed life to the db-wg. The database has not had any notable changes since its original redesign in 1999. All what there was was mostly patchwork than real innovation. As far as I see, this was mainly caused by the lack of general interest. Newbies struggled through the years, but once they learned how to do what they wanted, they were OK with not changing anything on it. This did preserve the status quo. I find the fact that RIPE NCC has a whole-day training course over the use of RIPE DB a sign in itself that it is not for this age. I think no matter who goes as a chair, they have to start breathing life into the WG activities; come up and support real, actual redesign with today's usage patterns, mindset and expectations in mind. That will require precious time that a professional would not have or want to invest. For this reason, I'd like to cast my vote on Denis, knowing that the other chairs would have a more professional background. He does have a lot of good ideas and does have the time and energy to see them through. Cheers, Agoston On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Job Snijders <job(a)instituut.net> wrote: > On Friday, 4 November 2016, Randy Bush <randy(a)psg.com> wrote: >> >> > What role does the database play in your professional work? >> >> is this repeated question trying to elicit conflict of interest? >> >> and could the current co-chairs also answer it? :) > > > Leadership whom clearly have a stake in the well-being of the database would > have my preference. > > Example: people that work for orgs that depend on the database for their > routing security posture have one up on people who don't even work for a LIR > and as such don't face daily operational reality. > > Last meeting Nigel stated that he wants to step down because he doesn't do > actually work with the database any longer. With new chairs I'd like to > prevent such alienation from the get-go. > > Kind regards, > > Job

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numbered work item suggestion: support PGP authentication with whois-api
by Thomas von Dein 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Hello WG, I'd like to propose an enhancement of the whois REST api to support PGP authenticated POST requests for create,update,delete methods. Currently the API doesn't support this, so you have to use the REST interface to download objects and the MAIL interface to modify them if you don't want to use password authentication. A consistent user interface however, would be more reliable, easier to understand and maintain. Thanks in advance, Thomas von Dein -- Thomas von Dein <admins(a)f-i-ts.net> Finanz Informatik Technologie Service GmbH & Co. KG, OE 76052 Tel:089/94511-8833, Fax:089/94511-8941, http://www.f-i-ts.net

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Progress on Number Work Items
by Tim Bruijnzeels 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Dear working group, As usual at the beginning of every month, here is an overview of all open Numbered Work Items. Compared to last month we have seen 6 new messages on NWI-3 - in the RIPE 73 agenda thread. NWI-1 Staying on top of abuse contact changes State: Problem Definition 3 messages 3 participants last message: 27 June 16 NWI-2 Displaying history for database objects where available State: Problem Definition 10 messages 5 participants last message: 12 July 16 NWI-3 AFRINIC IRR homing State: Solution Definition 36 messages 11 participants last message: 27 October 16 NWI-4 Role of status: field in multivalued status context State: Problem Definition 4 messages 3 participants last message: 27 June 16 NWI-5 Out of region ROUTE(6) / AUT-NUM objects State: Problem Definition 3 messages 3 participants last message: 28 July 16 NWI-6 Applicable data model not clear from contextless objects State: Problem Definition 3 messages 3 participants last message: 28 June 16 The progress on numbered work items (NWIs) is also available on the web site: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/numbered-work-items Regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC Database Group

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