[db-wg] org-type: NON-REGISTRY (was: New Documents available: RIPE-384, RIPE-385)

[ WG Co-Chair hat on ]

On 4 Sep 2006, at 13:26, Antoin Verschuren wrote:
> I have some sentimental issues with the new ENUM request forms as I
> found out when I had to use them last week.

I'm pretty sure that, in English, "sentimental" is the wrong word
and is likely to lead to confusion.  I think I know what you mean.

> The new ENUM registrations ask to register an Organisation holding the
> registration.
>
> This "Organisation" template, has a "org-type:" field.
> RIPE tells me to fill in "NON-REGISTRY" in this field.
>
> I'm aware that we are not an RIR, LIR or NIR as in the RIR world,  
> but I
> do feel the term "NON-REGISTRY" a bit degrading as we are the registry
> for .nl  and soon hopefully for ENUM.
>
> Can we invent a new term to use for official ENUM tier-1 registries  
> here
> ?

The "optics" do indeed seem non-intuitive. 8-)

If some ENUM tier-1 registry would take the initiative to put a proposal
on the table, and a few sister organizations gave support, we could have
consensus in the ENUM-WG in time to feed into the DB-WG agenda item:

	Y. Input from other WGs

I think we have "all the ducks lined up", as the saying goes; we just  
need
a proposal.


Best regards,

Niall O'Reilly
Co-Chair, RIPE ENUM Working Group