[db-wg] RE: [enum-wg] Proposal for new org-type

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 03, leo vegoda <leo at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
>> Do people find org-type values like IANA, RIR, LIR and so on useful?
>> No. What would be the point? 

As Leo pointed out:
Looking back into the mail archives for 2003 and 2004 I think the  
original purpose was to let people know how close to the End User the  
registration on a block of IP addresses was. If my memory is correct,  
the org-type was introduced after it was felt that status attribute  
values like "ALLOCATED-BY-IANA" or "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR" would  
overburden the status attribute syntax unnecessarily.

One of the possible functionality could be that you'd not like to
contact certain organisations holding numberblocks when abuse comes from
them since you will know these numbers are distributed in a specific
fashon, and you'll probably be not reaching an end user.

Don't know if such routines are used.

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