Tagging of IP adresses / Application-Database

Hi,

at RIPE-Meeting 33, the issue on the agenda of the lir-wg
of "Tagging of IP adresses and ANTI SPAM" was rejected.

Partly, because this has been implemented by Paul Vixi,
http://maps.vix.com/dul
Further, it was felt that these tags should not be an addition
to the IP-Objects, because it has a much broader range of
possible applications.

So, the issue was handed over to the db-wg
to think about a new application-registry.

Such an application-object could look like:
>>>
location:    [mandatory]  [single]      [primary/look-up key]
app-type:    [mandatory]  [single]      [primary key]            
app-subtype: [mandatory]  [single]      [primary key]            

descr:	     [mandatory]  [multiple] [ ]

admin-c:     [mandatory]  [multiple]   [inverse key]            
tech-c:      [mandatory]  [multiple]   [inverse key]            

remarks:     [optional]   [multiple]    [ ]

notify:      [optional]   [multiple]    [inverse key]
mnt-by:      [optional]   [multiple]    [inverse key]
changed:     [mandatory]  [multiple]    [ ]
source:      [mandatory]  [single]      [ ]
<<<

Location would be a range of IP-Addresses or maybe a hostname,
app-type a value/keyword like "nameserver", "dialin", "mail" etc.,
app-subtype a more detailed code for the application, like
	root-nameserver, tld-nameserver, cc-nameserver, etc.
Details to be discussed...

Then descr, contacts etc, just the usual stuff.

Technically, this shouldn't be too hard, but
the main questions remain on the administrative side:

- who would use this database,
  and for what purpose
  (Anti-SPAM, better route-flap-dampening ...)

- who should insert/maintain the contents

- how to determine if the contents are 'legal',
  e.g. come from the 'owner' of the mentioned ip-ranges/hosts

- what to do if someone protests against some contents,
  or claims damages because of some contents


Just to spark a bit of discussion...

Best Regards,
 HaJo Gurt

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