Colleagues The chairs agree that there is a consensus to set up an NWI to create the "geoloc:" attribute in the RIPE Database. We therefore ask the RIPE NCC to set up "NWI-13 Create a "geoloc:" attribute in the RIPE Database" Using the 'Problem statement' below. After the RIPE NCC completes it's impact analysis we can finalise the 'Solution definition'. The RIPE NCC can address any of the questions raised in this discussion that they feel are relevant to the basic creation of this attribute.
cheers denis co-chair DB-WG Problem statement Associating an approximate physical location with an IP address has proven to be a challenge to solve within the current constraints of the RIPE Database. Over the years the community has chosen to consider addresses in the RIPE Database to relate to entities in the assignment process itself, not the subsequent actual use of IP addresses after assignment. The working group is asked to consider whether the RIPE Database can be used as a springboard for parties wishing to correlate geographical information with IP addresses by allowing structured references in the RIPE Database towards information outside the RIPE Database which potentially helps answer Geo IP Location queries The IETF is currently discussing an update to RPSL to add a new attribute "geofeed: url". The url will reference a csv file containing location data. Some users have already started to make use of this feature via the "remarks: geofeed: url". It is never a good idea to try to overload structured data into the free format "remarks:" attribute. This has been done in the past, for example with abuse contact details before we introduced the "abuse-c:" attribute. There is no way to regulate what database users put into "remarks:" attributes. So even if the new "geofeed:" attribute is not agreed, the url data will still be included in the RIPE Database. Currently there are 24,408 INETNUM and 516,354 INET6NUM objects containing a "geoloc:" attribute in the database. These have 7,731 distinct values in the INETNUMs and 1,045 distinct values in the INET6NUMs. There are about 150 objects in the RIPE Database with a "remarks: geoloc url" attribute. On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 04:29, denis walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI Massimo > > I just checked the numbers Ed gave me and I misread the message. These > are the numbers of objects with a "geoloc:" attribute not geofeed :( > > cheers > denis > co-chair DB-WG > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 02:56, Massimo Candela <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Denis, > > > > > > On 07/04/2021 02:02, denis walker wrote: > > > Your data does not match the data I got from the RIPE NCC... > > > > > > From the RIPE NCC: > > > > > > Currently there are 24,408 INETNUM and 516,354 INET6NUM objects > > > containing a "remarks: geofeed: url" attribute in the database. These > > > have 7,731 distinct values in the INETNUMs and 1,045 distinct values > > > in the INET6NUMs. > > > > > > I cannot reproduce what you did. > > Even if I just "grep -i geofeed" in ripe.db.inetnum.gz from the ripe ncc > > ftp [1], I obtain only 132 items. And 39 in ripe.db.inet6num.gz. The > > same if I use the complete dump [2]. > > > > Is the data in the FTP wrong? Am I doing something wrong? > > > > Ciao, > > Massimo > > > > [1] https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ > > [2] https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz
