[db-wg] Draft Minutes of the RIPE 52 DB-WG meeting

Andre,

Andre Koopal wrote:
[...]

> I was really under the impression we agreed that if you lookup an
> ip-number the correct inetnum would be displayed together with the
> relevant irt object that might be from a level up. It has been remarked
> that in that way a not referenced block would be returned, but that was
> taken for granted.
> 
> I still think the above solution must be implemented to make the irt
> object usefull, and if the code can't easily handle it, the code must
> be changed.
>

Yes, that is what we plan to implement. There are a few details that
need to be clarified, but that will be in the proposal that will be sent
to the working group shortly.

The matter of discussion was deployment considerations: whether to
implement this new behaviour for the default query right away, or with a
-c flag. It was suggested that at the first phase we may want to
implement it as a default behaviour for the whois web cgi, but expect
the whois client to use the -c flag explicitly. And that would meet the
needs of the average user.

> Whatever options will be implemented to finetune the output for experienced
> users/coders I don't care, but the average user should see the relevant
> information.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andre Koopal
> 

Regards,

Andrei