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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Lutz</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There is no requirement for a source on a MNTNER name. So in your example the MNTNER could simply be NCC-MNT.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">cheers</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">denis</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">co-chair DB-WG</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 1 October 2020, 08:53:56 CEST, Lutz Donnerhacke via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
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<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">So the general scheme is SOURCE-NAME-FUNCTION, i.e. RIPE-NCC-MNT ?</span></p>
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<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> db-wg <db-wg-bounces@ripe.net>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>William Sylvester via db-wg<br clear="none">
<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 30. September 2020 21:44<br clear="none">
<b>An:</b> db-wg@ripe.net<br clear="none">
<b>Betreff:</b> [db-wg] MNTNER Naming : Consensus</span></p>
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<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">db-wg members, </span></p>
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<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The chairs of the database working group believe there is a consensus to have a standardised name format for creating new MNTNER objects. There was talk of a prefix (MNT-) or a suffix (-MNT). When creating a new standard
it doesn't really make sense to introduce a standard with multiple formats. As there are currently 36347 MNTNERs that end with -MNT and 12480 MNTNERs that start with MNT-, we suggest that the standard should be to end with -MNT.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We ask the RIPE NCC to take the next steps in moving this request forward, conducting an impact analysis, and proceed with implementation.
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<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards. </span></p>
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<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">William & denis</span></p>
<p class="ydp504372b2yiv8591108140MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">db-wg chairs</span></p></div>
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