RIPE NCC to stop enforcing accurate organisation names in "descr:" attribute
Dear colleagues, The "org:" attribute now provides a consistent way to find the organisation for all resources in the RIPE Database. The RIPE NCC is planning to stop enforcing the organisation name in the "descr:" attribute for those resources allocated or assigned by it. There was a time when the "org:" attribute was not mandatory for INETNUM, INET6NUM and AUT-NUM objects. And to make it clear which organisation is the holder of a resource, the RIPE NCC has been enforcing that the first "descr:" line of these objects reflects the organisation name for resources that are allocated or assigned by the RIPE NCC. But this limit was never enforced on resources not allocated or assigned by the RIPE NCC, such as sub-assignments and legacy resources. Nowadays these object types do have a mandatory "org:" attribute, and today the RIPE NCC also enforces that the organisation referenced here, and its name, reflect the registry records for these resources. For resources not allocated or assigned by the RIPE NCC it's the responsibility of resource holders to ensure that the referenced organisation accurately reflects the holder of e.g. sub-assignments and legacy resources. Please let us know if you have any comments. Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 03:56:13PM +0100, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote:
The "org:" attribute now provides a consistent way to find the organisation for all resources in the RIPE Database. The RIPE NCC is planning to stop enforcing the organisation name in the "descr:" attribute for those resources allocated or assigned by it.
Finally the 'descr:' is set free again to what it originally meant: a free form textual description :-)
Please let us know if you have any comments.
When will this change go into effect? Kind regards, Job
On 20 Feb 2015, at 16:20, Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 03:56:13PM +0100, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote:
The "org:" attribute now provides a consistent way to find the organisation for all resources in the RIPE Database. The RIPE NCC is planning to stop enforcing the organisation name in the "descr:" attribute for those resources allocated or assigned by it.
Finally the 'descr:' is set free again to what it originally meant: a free form textual description :-)
Please let us know if you have any comments.
When will this change go into effect?
We were thinking of mid April, for two reasons: 1) This gives the working group enough time to comment. 2) While the RIPE NCC has finished the effort to ensure that the org-id (and name) are set up correctly for all INETNUM and INET6NUM objects, we are still finalising this work for AUT-NUM objects. We expect that we will finish this effort in about 6 weeks. For consistency it would be easiest to change this for all resource types simultaneously. Kind regards, Tim
Kind regards,
Job
On 26/02/2015 09:01, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote:
1) This gives the working group enough time to comment.
This all looks good. Using descr: for this purpose was always a bit of a hack. Glad that it's finally going to be replaced with org-*: Nick
Indeed. Happy to see this change Joao
On 26 Feb 2015, at 10:46, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> wrote:
On 26/02/2015 09:01, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote:
1) This gives the working group enough time to comment.
This all looks good. Using descr: for this purpose was always a bit of a hack. Glad that it's finally going to be replaced with org-*:
Nick
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