<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Chriztoffer,<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Sep 2020, at 12:45, Chriztoffer Hansen via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net" class="">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 07/09/2020 12:16, ripedenis--- via db-wg wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">enforce this on all 'new' MNTNER object creations<br class="">I'm all for enforcing this syntax per you comment above.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Makes sense to _always_ be able to expect certain syntax rules for<br class="">different DB objects types.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="">The mntner name currently conforms to the <object-name> syntax defined in the RPSL RFC: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2622#section-2" class="">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2622#section-2</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no requirement to prefix or postfix with "MNT" at all. </div></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">So if we go down this route where do we draw the line?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Current standpoint: For a "phase I". I would suggest enforcing syntax<br class="">rules for _new_ objects.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>A syntax rule change can be done without needing a cleanup, if only enforced for new objects.</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Future standpoint up for discussion: For a "phase II", walkthrough<br class="">current DB primary keys to get a scope of how many objects primary<br class="">keys would need to be updated to follow "phase I" enforced syntax<br class="">rules(?)<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="">I checked the RIPE database and found 12480 mntners starting with "MNT-", 36347 mntners ending with "-MNT", and 7772 for all other names.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">-- <br class="">Kind regards,<br class="">CHRIZTOFFER<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Users can also report inaccurate information in the RIPE database to the RIPE NCC: <a href="https://www.ripe.net/contact-form" class="">https://www.ripe.net/contact-form</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We can contact the user and ask them to correct or remove the object.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Ed Shryane</div><div class="">RIPE NCC</div></body></html>