2nd draft: proposed agenda - DB-WG at RIPE 23, Amsterdam

  This is the 2nd proposal of a draft agenda 
  for the Database-WG at RIPE 23 in Amsterdam.

  Thanks to David who identified the lack of an item on the country:
  attribute. 

  For consistency reasons we propose to move the item on the
  use of URLs next to "referral" and to aggregate stuff that requires
  input from other WGs at the end.
  
  Changes are marked with the bar "|" character.

  I'd propose to have 2 sessions, 

    - one for the more formal items (A. - D., Y., Z.) and 
    - another one for the more general aspects (E., F., G.). 

  The "general aspects" session should probably precede the formal one.

  As always, additons, comments, etc. welcome!
  See you,
  Wilfried.
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 	Draft Agenda: Database-WG, RIPE 23, Amsterdam, NL
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A.  Administrative stuff
	- volunteering of the scribe
	- WG-agenda bashing

B.  DB-SW report
	- general status report
  	- "realtime" shadowing
	- hierarchical authorisation for creation and update
	- backlink implementation
	- automatic handle assignment

C.  DB-Objects and attributes
  	- referral mechanisms and distribution of authoritative data
|	- URL attribute? (credits for the idea to Erik-Jan Bos)
	- stored/processed attribute (A: 19.12)
|	- country: attribute, semantics (and syntax?)
  	- ROLE/NOC object, handling of lookup recursion
	
D.  Copyright for the RIPE-DB
  	proposal to have every whois query return 
		% data is copyrighted, and a pointer to the (C)
	definition of comment and/or meta-characters (%, #, *) ?

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E.  Databases and registries interoperation
	brainstorming about needs, methods,... 
	the 192 review project by B.Manning
	quality control of data, duplicates alert, fuzzy matching...
	uniqueness of names across databases (AS macros, route)
	references to data in a different database
	common update mechanism for "all" databases
		(multiple source: values? auto forwarding?)
	proposal for a coordinated development project?

F.  User Interfaces
	Tools
	online documentation

G.  Authentication and security

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Y.  Input from other WGs
|	- combined registry/maintainer object? (input from the Local-IR WG)
|	- mcast extensions for inet-rtr:, peer: attribute (A: )

Z.  AOB

			 Draft 1.1, 24-JAN-1996
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