[db-wg] Idea: magic mntner for all LIR contacts

* Aleksi Suhonen

> On 03/12/2018 10:35, Tore Anderson via db-wg wrote:
>> So I was thinking: is this mandatory and error-prone duplication of work
>> really necessary? Wouldn't it be possible to instead have some kind of
>> magic mntner object that is is kept automatically up to date with «auth:
>> SSO»-attributes for all the LIR user accounts?
> 
> I second this idea. Perhaps this should be a different object type tho, to make it clear that editing the magic maintainer by hand will have undesired results. It should be interchangeable with normal maintainers of course, a bit like person objects and role objects are.

Or maybe just expand the existing SSO attribute to accept a RegID. For
example:

mntner: FOOBAR-MNT
auth:   SSO no.foobar

Which would allow maintenance by all registered user accounts in LIR
no.foobar (except for accounts with the «billing» privilege level).

> Do you want someone to co-author a PDP on this?

I was hoping that a PDP wouldn't be necessary, to be honest. That is, if
the NCC thought it was a good idea they could just go ahead and implement
it. (If I recall correctly, the «auth: SSO» functionality was added
without there being a community policy demanding it.)

That said, if you want to write a proposal to this effect I'd be happy to
put my name on it.

Tore