RIPE32 DB-WG Draft Agenda, version 3

  Attached please find the 3rd draft of the Proposed Agenda for the 
  DB-WG meeting during RIPE32 in Amsterdam, next week.

  As compared to version 2 there are some  addition and some editorial
  improvements.
  
  Regards,
  Wilfried.
  
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                          Proposed Agenda for the
                       Database Working Group Meeting

                     RIPE-32, January 1999, Amsterdam
				 3. Draft


  A.  Administrative stuff (Wilfried Woeber, chair)

        - appointment of scribe
        - agenda bashing
|  	- deputy chair


  B.  RIPE DB, operational update (RIPE NCC)
        - statistics, performance, changes, most recent mod.s
        - RPSL migration update, usage
        - documentation update


  C.  PGP deployment in the RIPE DB (RIPE NCC: Roman)
        - current status of delpoyment, feedback


  D.  DB SW Re-implementation (RIPE NCC: Joao)
        - status, milestones/roadmap, resources required/available


  E.  Migration to the new SW
        - operational aspects
	- beta-test program and information exchange (ml ?)
        - proposal to *not* migrate obsoleted objects and attributes
                . dom-prefix
                . any others?


  F.  I-D draft-ietf-rps-auth-01, -rps-dist-?? (??)
	- RIPE region requirements/comments
        - any progress


  G.  Handling of person: & role: objects
|       - proposal to auto-generate handles for objects without a handle
	- proposal to *not* allow re-use of handles, pro.s and con.s
        - proposal to force-add maintainers for contact objects
        - operational issues, e.g. sharing maintenance of an object
        - impact on tools or scripts?


| H.  Timestamping & Serial #s
	- implementation proposal (RIPE NCC)


| I.  inet6num object
  	- modification proposal (RIPE NCC)


| J.  Y2K cleanup
  	- proposal to have the YYMMDDs changed to YYYYMMDD automatically


| K.  DB Consistency
	- status update (RIPE NCC)


  X.  IETF report(s) (??)


  Y.  Input from other WGs
        - Review of referral mechanism
                (might be promoted to be an agenda item in it's own right)
        - Tagging IP-Address ranges as Dial-In
                (proposal by Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at freebsd.org>)
        - t.b.d.


  Z.  AOB
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