[db-wg] draft agenda (V1) for DB-WG meeting, RIPE 49, Manchester, UK

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 19:40, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 10, MarcoH <marcoh at marcoh.net> wrote:
> 
> > Summarizing the options:

<SNIP the ones I would not want to see happening at all ;)>

> > - minor database changes to limit the number of '@' signs returned

Could break some query functionality in case someone has say 5 e-mail
lines in one object or one refers to a role object which refers to
multiple people etc. Don't think this is really viable.

One can download the complete thing using ftp anyways.

> > - change IRT to make PGP-stuff optional and thus IRT more usable

I would not oppose this, see previous discussions ;)

> > - do nothing and stop this now

At least the PGP-optional should be fixed.

>  - return by default the less specific irt object for every
>    inetnum/inetnum6 query, if one exists

Good idea too...

> Many of these options are not mutually exclusive, i.e. it's probably a
> good idea, independently from implementing or not abuse-c, to make PGP
> attributes in IRT records optional and to make the email address in the
> changed attribute a free form string (it does not /need/ to reference a
> person object, as long as people in each organization can agree on what
> should be put there).
> Is anybody opposed to these changes?

Nope, changing the e-mail lines to person objects is probably wiser
indeed. The whois interface could btw hide all the entries between the
first and the last entry?

Greets,
 Jeroen

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