[db-wg] "status:" attribute values in the RIPE database

Ed & all -

makes sense to me, too.

However: Instead of forcing this on the creator/updater of an object -
how about the NCC to be as liberal as possible (John Postel's law, the
robustness principle) and to accept any case combination, e.g. "aSSigNED
pi", but very conservatively keep the attribute sored in the DB in
uppercase only?

ATB,

	-C.

On 07.06.2021 11:09, Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> In Remco van Mook's presentation to the Address Policy WG at RIPE 82: "What Colour Is My IP(v4) space? PI Addresses and LIRs", he pointed out that resource "status:" attribute values may not always be all UPPERCASE.
> 
> This is because the RIPE database is case-insensitive and case preserving in general, meaning a "status:" attribute value is the same regardless of the case.
> 
> However, this may make parsing this value more difficult as the case should be ignored.
> 
> Should the DB team implement a rule to always force the "status:" attribute value to uppercase, for consistency?
> 
> Regards
> Ed Shryane
> RIPE NCC