[db-wg] Validation on "org-name:" syntax (double spaces and newlines)

I would prefer option 1, because it can make things easier for guys not
familiar with unix system.


On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 07:35 Tim Bruijnzeels via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>
wrote:

> Dear Working Group,
>
> Out of 114181 ORGANISATION objects, 112 objects use multiple consecutive
> whitespace in the “org-name:” attribute and only 1 uses a multi-line value.
> While this is a tiny fraction these objects are a bit problematic to us
> when we verify that the “org-name:” matches the name of the organisation
> that we allocated or assigned resources to in our records. We also believe
> that this is highly confusing to users and tools parsing these objects.
>
> Therefore we like to clean these objects up and remove any
> multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences. We can of course follow up with
> these organisation individually, but the reason that I bring it up here is
> that we also want to have stricter syntax rules in place to prevent this
> from happening again. We can do either of the following:
>
> 1) replace multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences on input (warn, but
> just strip the additional space)
> 2) reject multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences on input
>
> I am leaning towards option 2, but I would value your input.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tim Bruijnzeels
> Assistant Manager Software Engineering and Senior Technology Officer
> RIPE NCC
>
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Kind regards.
Lu
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