[db-wg] geofeed issue: can't add geofeed attribute to PI /48

Hi,

My opinions on this can probably be summed up with me pretty much
entirely agreeing with Job, Randy, and mostly with Gert.

With regards to Gert's reply I would just like to say that I think
trying to decide who is and isn't a legal entity is something really
complicated and last I checked the NCC didn't seem to be great at it.
Some kinds of legal structures like partnerships or associations might
be legal entities in some jurisdictions but not in others.

I think a better argument here is that being able to create an
inet(6)num object with a tech-c/admin-c that has someone's personal
details in it but no ability to put a geofeed attribute in it due to
the prefix size seems like an extremely weird situation.
If the NCC legal team thinks this makes sense then I would love to
hear how on earth they think it makes more sense to publish someone's
name, address, and phone number, than to publish a URL that might
contain the location of the device(s) using that IP address (which the
NCC doesn't publish directly). (especially as I think people would
rarely make it more specific than a city or borough)

-Cynthia

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 9:06 PM Randy Bush via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> hi ed:
>
> one step forward, one back.
>
> in a previous life, i was a programming language hacker snd compiler
> writer.  we used to make very strong negative review of any proposals
> to muck about with semantics in comment fields.  just don't.
>
> randy
>
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