Robert S. Plaul <mailto:robert@plaul.de> wrote:
Proposal for Adding a Haiku Object to the RIPE Database
Requirement:
System Administrators and other users of the RIPE Database need some avocation beside their exhausting work with ip address space assignments, routing and other occupations concerning database objects which have to be taken seriously. The existing limerick object provides such avocation but obviously has some limitations:
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Solution:
... Even Though I fully agree with the need for a haiku object, because I am not sure of my limmericks (LIM-ROSE LIM-FRIENDS LIM-STRESS) I don't think the creation of an haiku object -per se- might be the solution. Mayhaps can we reuse the limerick objects and use the remarks field with one of the possible value : HAIKU, for haiku SONNET for such PROSE for freestyle poetry .... Therefore not only would we satisfy : - sysadmin that like well labelled object for easier retrieval, - poets for increasing their potentiality, - RIPE dba for not chaging the actual object. And if an object was to be created I would propose on the model of limerick object whois -t poem poem: [mandatory] [single] [primary/look-up key] descr: [optional] [multiple] [ ] text: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] admin-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] author: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] remarks: [optional] [multiple] [ ] notify: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] type: [mandatory] [single] [ ] mnt-by: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] changed: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] source: [mandatory] [single] [ ] Where type would be one of the folllowing : LIMERICK, PROSE, QUATRAIN, SONNET, HAIKU, ASCII-ART ... Such a solution would broadly sataisfy any sysadmin wanting to express his art freely. For managers I would propose a MEMO object too. Because, the whois DB might be the fully legitimate place for such a thing, the last place where you are gonna search for such an abomination. ;) Regards, Julien Tayon