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Meanwhile, at ICANN...
by Shane Kerr 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

All, Not necessarily RIPE Database related, but I thought I'd point out that ICANN is considering replacing WHOIS for gTLD: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-01-04-en Cheers, -- Shane

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Release 1.84 deployed to RC
by Tim Bruijnzeels 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Dear working group, We have deployed release 1.84 to RC. This release was necessary to prepare for hardware upgrades of the whois infrastructure. Note that this release does not include the work for deprecating "changed:". This work will be part of release 1.85 that we plan to deploy to RC on 21 December, and to production on 1 February 2016. We needed to give precedence to this release, so that we will be able to upgrade the server infrastructure in January, while the release for "changed:" is still being evaluated in RC. Even though we plan to deploy 1.85 to RC on 21 December, we will only upgrade the server hardware and move to 1.84 in production in January. This upgrade does not include any API changes, however the hardware upgrade itself will involve a short outage of the RIPE DB updates. We want to do this operation after the end of year holidays when we are fully staffed, and will communicate a more detailed plan closer to the date. Please let us know if you have any concerns, comments or questions. Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC Database Group

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[training] RIPE NCC Training Courses January-March 2016
by Training Services 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Dear colleagues, Our training team travels the RIPE NCC service region to deliver training courses to our members without any additional cost. Over the next few months, we'll be in Amsterdam, London, Toulouse, Prague, Baku, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Vilnius, Chisinau, Bishkek. Visit the following page to register and to check which training courses we are giving in your area: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses The RIPE NCC delivers the following training courses: - LIR Training Course - RIPE Database Training Course - Basic IPv6 Training Course - DNSSEC Training Course - 2 days Advanced IPv6 Training Course - 2 days BGP Operations and Security Training Course For more information visit: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/courses With kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager

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anyone using the RIPE Databse MUST now have an SSO account?
by ripedenis＠yahoo.co.uk 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi guys When was it discussed, agreed or announced that Webupdates will no longer allow objects to be created or updated with a password? As Webupdates is the only way to access an unfiltered version of your own MNTNER object, it is no longer possible to even retrieve a version of your own MNTNER without signing up for an SSO account. I did not realise this has become mandatory. So has it been agreed that SSO is the only authorisation method allowed to access the RIPE Database? Did I miss the announcement that passwords and PGP are being deprecated? cheersdenis

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revisiting rpsl-related set of rcf documents?
by Wilfried Woeber 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Following up on the discussion here, during the DB-WG session in Bucharest, where changes to different aspects of using the RIPE registry database - including a reference to discussions relating to cross-RIR authorisation - I'd like to ask the following question to the community: Is it about time to revisit the set of RFCs and either get them updated to properly reflect the (more) current reality, or consciously have them declared historic and overtaken by events? What's your point of view? Thanks, Wilfried

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RIPE TEST DATABASE REST INTERFACE PROBLEM
by PRANEETH, MANASVI 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Hi, I have created a maintainer EIPAM-MNT for testing the ripe rest in Test system. But looks like the query/update function is not working through rest Interface. Can you confirm whether the RIPE REST is working for TEST database. [cid:image001.png@01D125DE.B2187610] Request sent: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <whois-resources> <objects> <object type="INET6NUM"> <source id="TEST"/> <attributes> <attribute name="inet6num" value="2001:1be0:1000:1e::/64"/> <attribute name="netname" value="EIPAMGUYATT"/> <attribute name="descr" value="EIPAMGUYATT"/> <attribute name="country" value="US"/> <attribute name="admin-c" value="EP1-TEST"/> <attribute name="tech-c" value="EP1-TEST"/> <attribute name="status" value="ASSIGNED"/> <attribute name="mnt-by" value="EIPAM-MNT"/> <attribute name="mnt-lower" value="TEST-DBM-MNT"/> <attribute name="source" value="TEST"/> </attributes> </object> </objects> </whois-resources> Response received: Errormessage part: <errormessages> <errormessage severity="Error" text="Authorisation for [%s] %s failed using "%s:" no valid maintainer found "> <args value="inet6num"/> <args value="2001:1be0:1000:1e::/64"/> <args value="mnt-by"/> <args value=""/> </errormessage> <errormessage severity="Error" text="The maintainer '%s' was not found in the database"> <args value="EIPAM-MNT"/> </errormessage> <errormessage severity="Error" text="Unknown object referenced %s"> <attribute name="tech-c" value="EP1-TEST"/> <args value="EP1-TEST"/> </errormessage> <errormessage severity="Error" text="Unknown object referenced %s"> <attribute name="mnt-by" value="EIPAM-MNT"/> <args value="EIPAM-MNT"/> </errormessage> <errormessage severity="Error" text="Unknown object referenced %s"> <attribute name="admin-c" value="EP1-TEST"/> <args value="EP1-TEST"/> </errormessage> <errormessage severity="Info" text="To create the first person/mntner pair of objects for an organisation see https://apps.db.ripe.net/startup/"/<https://apps.db.ripe.net/startup/%22/>> </errormessages> Thanks, Manasvi praneeth Nannapaneni INSTAR-EIPAM Development/office:(636) 544-5448/mp418b(a)att.com<mailto:(636)%20544-5448/mp418b@att.com>

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Database release 1.83 deployed to RC environment
by Alex Band 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the deployment of RIPE Database software release 1.83 to the Release Candidate (RC) environment, which has gone live on Friday 30 October. This release is still focussed on seamlessly integrating RIPE NCC Access (SSO) into the webupdates user interface. In addition, several other changes have been made, such as: - Webupdates will show full object details by default - Partial route object creation has been greatly improved, indicating which maintainer needs to complete the authorisation - When deleting a person object, you will be prompted to also delete the associated maintainer if it has no other dependencies - When trying to delete an object that is still referenced, you will get a list of blocking objects - Auto-complete of person, role and organisation attributes is now available throughout the interface - The TEST database now has its own URL instead of having to be selected with a radio button Please let us know if you have any questions or comments. Kind regards, Alex Band Product Manager RIPE NCC

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RIPE 72 minutes
by Nigel Titley 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Folks Here is the first cut at the minutes. Comments (and particularly complaints about missing/additional action points) to me All the best Nigel

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RIPE 71 DB-WG agenda V4
by Piotr Strzyzewski 19 Nov '15

19 Nov '15

Dear DB-WG Members This is the 4th draft of an agenda for the DB-WG Meeting at RIPE71 at the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania. The DB-WG Meeting is scheduled as usual for Thursday, Nov 19th, starting at 14:00 local time, after the lunch break. The length of our timeslot is 90 minutes. For the overall RIPE 71 meeting plan please refer to its most up-to-date version at https://ripe71.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ Although the agenda is fully packed right now, please feel free to comment agenda items or propose additional topics to be discussed both on the mailing list or direct to the WG Chairs at db-wg-chairs(a)ripe.net Looking forward to see you all in Bucharest. All the best, Job, Nigel & Piotr ________________________________________________________________________ A. Administrative Matters [~5 min] . Welcome . select scribe (thanks to Nigel for volunteering again!) . finalise agenda . approval of minutes from previous WG meeting(s) . review of action list (Nigel Titley) B. Database Updates (Tim Bruijnzeels, RIPE NCC) [~30 min] . operations . new functionality . "changed:" deprecation . Implementation proposal descr line . restrict usage of RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT . other aspects . personalised authentication C. Updated Database documentation (Alex Band, RIPE NCC) [~10 min] D. Routing policies vs. reality in BGP (Tomas Hlavacek) [~15 min] E. Afrinic IRR (Michel Odou) [~10 min] Afrinic IRR homing project update (Tim Bruijnzeels, RIPE NCC) [~10 min] F. ROUTE object authorisation update (Job Snijders) [~5 min] G. Control over associating objects for number blocks (William Sylvester) [~5 min] X. Heads up about recent discussions at db-wg mailing list Y. Input from other Working Groups and/or Task Forces Z. AOB __________________________________________ -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski(a)polsl.pl

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Bootstraping a new private whois instance
by CUBIC, SCOTT 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Hi all, I'm new to the db-wg, and I'm just beginning to explore the code from https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois.git. I'd like to use the code to run a private whois server to integrate with our Infoblox IPAM system. I've cloned the repository and followed the instructions posted at https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/wiki/Installation-instructions . The instructions, however, don't include any details on 'priming' the whois database - using the SQL from the whois-commons/target/classes/<database>_schema.sql files, I get all my databases and tables created, but there is no data in the tables. I'm assuming that I need to have at least a 'mntner' in the WHOIS_LOCAL/mntner table, and I added a single entry manually with an object_id of 0, but I still can't seem to use any update method (synchupdates, REST, etc.) to add new information to the database. Would it be possible to get a push in the right direction for manually populating the WHOIS database with enough stuff (user IDs, passwords, etc.) to begin using the APIs to modify the database? Regards, Scott Cubic cubic(a)att.com<mailto:cubic@att.com>

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