May 2026 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

Replacing well-known passwords in the RIPE and TEST databases
by Edward Shryane 21 May '26

21 May '26

Dear collegaues, There was a comment during this morning's DB-WG session that the well-known password for LIM-MNT (the Limericks Working Group Maintainer) in the RIPE database has been replaced. Apologies this has not been properly documented. Now the LIM-MNT has two new auth: attributes: * auth: PGPKEY-EB331265 * https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=ripe&key=PGPKEY-EB331265&t… * auth: X509-3861 * https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=ripe&key=X509-3861&type=ke… Both key-cert objects contain the private key in remarks: attributes, so you can use either to authenticate as LIM-MNT. Separately, we have also added auth: attributes to the TEST-ROOT-MNT maintainer in the TEST database, so users can bootstrap their objects there. * auth: PGPKEY-2B4DEF0D * https://apps-test.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=test&key=PGPKEY-2B4DE… * auth: X509-1 * https://apps-test.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=test&key=X509-1&type=… Both key-cert objects also contain the private key in remarks: attributes, so you can authenticate as TEST-ROOT-MNT. We will update the DB documentation with this information. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC

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RIPE91 Database Working Group Minutes
by Peter Hessler 21 May '26

21 May '26

Hello Database Working Group, The draft minutes from our session at RIPE91 has been published on the RIPE website, available at https://www.ripe.net/community/wg/active-wg/db/minutes/ripe-database-workin… We'd like to thank Antony from the RIPE NCC for preparing the draft. Please review the minutes, and send any necessary corrections to the working group mailing list. Peter Hessler, On behalf of the DB WG Co-Chairs

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Whois Release 1.122.1
by Edward Shryane 14 May '26

14 May '26

Dear colleagues, We have just released RIPE database release 1.122.1 to the production environment. The only change from release 1.122 is a fix to add a size limit to RDAP relation search queries. We did not wait for the usual 2 week testing period in the RC environment because receiving many such queries at once can impact the production service for other users. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC

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Public ENUM article and RIPE 92 Services WG discussion
by Hisham Ibrahim 12 May '26

12 May '26

Dear colleagues, I wanted to share an article on the current operational status of Public ENUM under e164.arpa. The article is based on a 2026 operational review carried out by the RIPE NCC and looks at the status of current delegations and the questions this raises for the future support of Public ENUM. I plan to present this topic during the Services Working Group session at RIPE 92, where I hope we can discuss the findings and possible next steps with the community. Article: https://labs.ripe.net/author/hisham_ibrahim/operational-review-of-public-en… Best regards, Hisham

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Call for co-chair volunteers
by David Tatlisu 11 May '26

11 May '26

Hi Everyone, My current term as a DB-WG co-chair will expire at RIPE 92. To me it's a little hard to believe how quickly time passed, and looking back a lot has changed. As per the chair selection process any member of the RIPE community may stand for chair. If you have any questions about the experience, training opportunities or would like to express your interest in this position, please contact the chairs at db-wg-chairs(a)ripe.net *by 21 April. *Kind regards, David On behalf of the Database WG Chairs.

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NWI-21: "Registration Number" Implementation Plan
by Edward Shryane 05 May '26

05 May '26

Dear colleagues, Following is the implementation plan for the NWI-21 "Registration Number" feature. We plan to go live with this feature on Thursday 30th April, in time for the RIPE 92 meeting in May. Introduction ------------ Adding a registration number to organisations in the RIPE Database was proposed by Marco Schmidt at the Address Policy session at RIPE 91. See slides 14 to 17 : https://pretalx.ripe.net/media/ripe91/submissions/FJ7YSH/resources/RIPE91_U… Following the RIPE Meeting, a Problem Statement was published to the DB-WG: https://mailman.ripe.net/archives/list/db-wg@ripe.net/thread/77NQDFTMHLIOLE… Following the discussion, consensus was declared on the Problem Definition and the Solution Definition was agreed by the Database working group: https://mailman.ripe.net/archives/list/db-wg@ripe.net/thread/6S5ZIQ4TTCPNQF… RIPE Database ------------- The Database team is responsible for adding a new "reg-nr:" attribute to the organisation object template in the RIPE database. The attribute will only be added to organisations co-maintained by the RIPE NCC and cannot be modified by the organisation’s maintainer. The value is free text, as the value will vary by registry. The "reg-nr:" attribute will be visible in filtered Whois query responses and will be included in the nightly database dump files once we have finalised updating the relevant documentation.. RIPE Database Web Application ----------------------------- The Database team will add the "reg-nr:" attribute to organisations in query and lookup responses, and will be highlighted as a RIPE NCC managed attribute. As "reg-nr:" is a RIPE NCC managed attribute, users will not be able to add a "reg-nr:" to an organisation object themselves. The web application will not provide a link to a registry website. After internal review, it was decided that this would introduce significant complexity and would require ongoing maintenance effort considering that registry platforms and URLs can change over time. Registry Team ------------- The Registry team is responsible for validating the existing registration number data before it is published. The data should be consistent, where possible, for each national or regional company registry. Also, the Registry team is responsible for ongoing updates to the registration number. Internal Registry Software -------------------------- The Software Engineering team is responsible for synchronising the registration number from the internal registry to the RIPE database, after the Registry team has performed its validation. The software will perform the following validation for an organisation’s registration number: * Not have any leading/trailing whitespace * Only consist of Latin-1 characters * Not contain a "#" (reserved for a comment in RPSL) * Maximum length 60 characters If the organisation is a natural person or government entity, then "reg-nr: Not Applicable" is published. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC

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reg-nr entity types
by Cynthia Revström 04 May '26

04 May '26

Hi db-wg and ncc-services-wg, I'm not sure if this necessarily belongs in db-wg or ncc-services-wg but I felt like it might be of interest to both. Now that the reg-nr fields have been populated I have noticed some interesting places where it is present and where it is omitted. As far as I understand it, it is supposed to be omitted from orgs referring to natural persons (I assume including sole proprietors) and government agencies while being included for basically all other kinds of entities. When looking at the data for some Swedish entities I noticed that for both non-profit associations and government agencies, there were those with reg-nr and those without. I would expect non-profits to have reg-nr (except for the cases when they don't have one) while I would expect gov agencies not to have one. One example of a gov agency having reg-nr is SUNET, the Swedish NREN: ORG-SA58-RIPE As SUNET is also the employer of one of the current RIPE NCC EB members I would expect that the NCC would be somewhat familiar with the fact that it is a gov agency. I highlighted that I was worried about this kind of issue when we discussed this proposal in the db-wg in November so I can't say that I'm too surprised. I am however thankful that I at least haven't observed any cases of a natural person having a reg-nr on them as that was my biggest worry by far. -Cynthia

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