Yes, I understand, but that’s a weak argument. In this case, the value even contains words in French. Attribute names are inconsistently mixed between long and abbreviated forms (likely due to historical reasons and backward compatibility). They don’t clearly convey their purpose, values are free-form, and recent changes don’t seem to improve the situation. Just my two cents.

Regards,

Laurent

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 11:23 AM Bengt Gördén via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:

On 2026-04-29 11:14, Laurent Pellegrino via db-wg wrote:

Hi there,

For your information, I just noticed the new reg-nr listed for my organisation:

organisation: ORG-ES691-RIPE
reg-nr: 983 391 012 Inscrite au R.C.S ANTIBES

It's clearly not a number...

The label says nr but it is a free-form field. Probably because there is no universal definition of "registration number".

$   whois -h whois.ripe.net -v organisation | grep -A5 reg-nr$

reg-nr

  Organisation registration number.

    A sequence of ASCII characters.
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Bengt Gördén
Resilans AB
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