Dear colleagues,

In Remco van Mook's presentation to the Address Policy WG at RIPE 82: "What 
Colour Is My IP(v4) space? PI Addresses and LIRs", he pointed out that resource 
"status:" attribute values may not always be all UPPERCASE.

This is because the RIPE database is case-insensitive and case preserving in 
general, meaning a "status:" attribute value is the same regardless of the case.

However, this may make parsing this value more difficult as the case should be 
ignored.

Should the DB team implement a rule to always force the "status:" attribute 
value to uppercase, for consistency?

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC


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