[db-wg] The New "organisation object" Proposal

I think this proposal is very good.


On Monday, Aug 25, 2003, at 12:27 Europe/Amsterdam, DB-News wrote:

>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> [apologies for duplicate messages]
>
> Following discussions at the RIPE NCC about a new Whois Database 
> object,
> the organisation object, we have modified the previous proposal that 
> you
> can find at:
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/db-wg/2003/msg00013.html
>
> The main changes from the previous proposal are:
>
>  - a "country:" attribute is added.
>  - "org-type:" and "org-name:" attributes are added, and 
> "organisation:"
>     attribute is now a NIC handle, which will be automatically assigned
>     during the creation of the object. The motivation for this is 
> explained
>     in Section 3 of the proposal.

A very welcome modification. The last thing the RIPE DB needs to get 
dragged into are trade mark disputes about object names.
Could it be made a bit stricter and allow only for auto-generation of 
organisation NIC handles?

>  - Hierarchical names can be removed, mainly for simplicity.

I got lost on this one. Do you mean "can be removed" or "have been 
removed"?

>  - Differing query results on the whois server introduced in section 5.
>     According to this, the relevant organisation objects are appended 
> to the
>     query results (because the organisation that holds the resource is 
> at
>     least as important as the person/role objects mentioned in the 
> resource object).

This is good. Also being able to disable it with '-r'.

Will the database enforce any restrictions on the assignment of 
org-types, so that new IANAs and new RIRs can't be created, with 
potential for introducing confusion?

I think this is a good proposal for an organisation object in the RIPE 
Database,
Joao