Wilfried, I'm not 100% sure what the AP is, but let me explain what we have done. We have changed the behaviour of the database so that when you do a "-c" lookup, we return the IRT object in the reply. I thought this was the desired behaviour. You can see it here: http://www.ripe.net/fcgi-bin/whois?-c+193.78.240 It is possible to change the behaviour further, to make "-c" more useful I think. One way of doing this might be to try to find the "best" reply on a "-c" query. So, something like: - Find the closest matching INETNUM/INET6NUM object with "mnt-irt:" - return the INETNUM/INET6NUM object (along with the IRT object) - If there is no INETNUM/INET6NUM, perform a normal lookup Right now you have to do this on the client side. Anyway, we can certainly discuss this at the working group session. -- Shane Kerr RIPE NCC Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
Thanks to Andre for reminding me about that item!
I am a tad puzzled, because a DB-WG Action on this reads:
48.6 RIPE NCC To change DB behaviour to return IRT object [Complete]
However, neither the web interface nor the RIPE whois client does return the irt information. Rather I get a route object under the heading of
% Information related to 'prefix/length ASinfo'
Any insight on that? Thanks, Wilfried.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: [db-wg] RIPE51 DB-WG Draft Agenda V1] Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:28:57 +0200 From: Andre Koopal <andre.koopal@nld.mci.com> To: Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet <woeber@cc.univie.ac.at> CC: db-wg@ripe.net, RIPE NCC Meeting Registration <meeting@ripe.net>, wg-chairs@ripe.net References: <434BB603.4050409@cc.univie.ac.at>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:54:27PM +0100, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
Dear DB-WG folks, Chairs, Meeting!
Here is the 2nd draft of an agenda for the DB-WG next week at RIPE51 in Amsterdam.
For time slot allocation please refer to the most up-to-date meeting plan at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/meeting-plan.html
Hi Wilfried,
A while ago I mailed the db working group to request a changed behavour when you lookup inetnum's.
In principle what I would like to see is that when an inetnum is returned, that the IRT object that is relevant to this inetnum is returned as well.
For example, if you lookup inetnum '193.78.240' you get that inetnum returned, and the irt-object 'IRT-MCI-NL', as that is specified in the inetnum above: '193.78/15'.
Note that this is different then the current -c behavour as that would, in this example' return the inetnum for '193.78/15' instead.
Can you add this discussion on the agenda as well?
Unfortunately I won't be able to visit the WG session myself, I hope the proposal is clear this way.
Regards,
Andre Koopal
Best regards, Wilfried. ________________________________________________________________________
A. Administrative Matters - scribe - list of participants - agenda - minutes - "remote participation" coordination (if needed)
B. DB Update (N.N., RIPE NCC) [~15 min]
C. Review of security mechanisms in the DB (Peter K., denic.de) [~15 min] . quality of CRYPT-PW, CRYPT-MD5, X.509 . level of vulnerabilty in current dataset
D. State of whois services, developments? (WW144, N.N., RIPE NCC) [~15 min]
E. IRIS pilot frontend to whois (N.N., RIPE NCC) [~10 min]
F. Fact finding: RoutingReg facilities at RIRs (Gert D, SpaceNet) [~15 min]
X. Impact of "PDP" on how the DB-WG operates (WW144) [~15 min] . ref: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-350.html
Y. Input from other WGs . DNS: secureDNS requirements for the DB
Z. AOB