[db-wg] RIPE NCC to stop enforcing accurate organisation names in "descr:" attribute

On 20 Feb 2015, at 16:20, Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 03:56:13PM +0100, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote:
>> The "org:" attribute now provides a consistent way to find the
>> organisation for all resources in the RIPE Database. The RIPE NCC is
>> planning to stop enforcing the organisation name in the "descr:"
>> attribute for those resources allocated or assigned by it.
> 
> Finally the 'descr:' is set free again to what it originally meant: a
> free form textual description :-)
> 
>> Please let us know if you have any comments.
> 
> When will this change go into effect?

We were thinking of mid April, for two reasons:

1) This gives the working group enough time to comment.

2) While the RIPE NCC has finished the effort to ensure that the org-id (and name) are set up correctly for all INETNUM and INET6NUM objects, we are still finalising this work for AUT-NUM objects. We expect that we will finish this effort in about 6 weeks. For consistency it would be easiest to change this for all resource types simultaneously.


Kind regards,

Tim


> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job