Hi Gert, I was not suggesting it, I think it is a bad idea, but I interpreted the following as Job suggesting it. > I think a mandatory "-MNT" or "MNT-" or "-MAINT" is helpful because the maintainers primary key string does pop up from time to time without any context, and this can lead to confusion. See https://seclists.org/nanog/2020/Jan/650 for a fun story about how one person's email error code is another person's BGP autonomous system reference. :-)
- Cynthia On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 9:05 PM Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:00:44PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020, at 20:52, Gert Doering wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:36:53PM +0200, Cynthia Revström via db-wg > wrote: > > > > I am not sure how feasible the mandatory "-mnt" would be at this > point tbh. > [..] > > As I understand the conversation, the one option on the table to discuss > is how to deal with primary keys that clash with other scopes of context, > specifically autnums. Of those only 26 exist > > > > SPACENET-P does not look like an AS number so isn't an issue and doesn't > need to change. > > This is true, but I was responding to Cynthia's suggestion of having a > mandatory "-mnt". Which would affect us - as I said, doable, but it needs > to make sense. > > Of course if it's only about "looks like an ASN" mntners, I'll go back in > my lurking corner and watch with interest :-) > > Gert Doering > -- NetMaster > -- > have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? > > SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael > Emmer > Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann > D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) > Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 >
