Hi Christian,
Christian Panigl, ACOnet/UniVie +43 1 4065822-383 writes :
maybe there is another solution: migrate the "country" attribute to a "registry" attribute which should hold the responsible registry name
I like the proposal since we will need a registry object once anyway. However, there is one big con:
david writes:
Since we are dealing with a small, though highly visible problem we need easy and quick fixes to avoid putting too much work in something that's not really worth it ;-).
Pros:
easy (?) to implement
I am afraid we can better take this out of the pros list and add the following to the cons list: Cons: needs a lot of design work for a proper registry object, might also take quite some implementation work depending on the design we choose. Another complication might be that we still want to have a 'country:' attribute defined for the registry object that will suffer the same problems we have with the inetnum objects. I think it is best to first think about the 'country:' attribute and then, for the longer term see if we can fetch the whole thing into a registry object. But don't get me wrong, I like the idea and the design work might turn out as very useful since we will need a registry object anyway some time in the future, Kind regards, David Kessens -----
Example:
inetnum: 193.0.0.0 - 193.255.255.255 country: RIPE
will be modified when entering the DB to
inetnum: 193.0.0.0 - 193.255.255.255 registry: RIPE
inetnum: 193.170.16.0 registry: at.aconet
Pros:
Solves the problem completely, is politically correct, easy (?) to implement
Cons:
will break applications which query for the "country" attribute, are there any ? Alternatively you might add the "registry" attribute and obsolte the country attribute.
Regards Christian
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