Proposal for extended syntax for the 'country:' attribute

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
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>     
>     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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