Re: [db-wg] email's disappeared from RDAP output

2024-01-05 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ben Cartwright-Cox via db-wg wrote on 05/01/2024 14:49: Sadly --show-personal over whois port 43 also does not return email for person objects: $ whois-h whois.ripe.net --show-personal BC6775-RIPE |& grep email: $ The only way to do this is I guess to scrape the website... oops, pebkak.

Re: [db-wg] Proposal to allow non-ASCII characters in "org-name:", "person:" and "role:" attributes

2023-11-24 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Job Snijders via db-wg wrote on 24/11/2023 09:21: Wouldn't it be an opportune time to support UTF-8 instead of LATIN-1? punycode?? Nick (Sorry, couldn't resist.) -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit:

Re: [db-wg] Impact Analysis for NWI-4: using the inetnum and status tuple as a primary key

2023-09-30 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 29/09/2023 15:24: Following is the impact analysis for NWI-4 "Role of status: field in multivalued status context" based on the use of the "inetnum:" and "status:" tuple as a primary key. Hmm. Ok. Would it be useful to have a discussion about this at the

Re: [db-wg] Where are we with NWIs?

2023-07-21 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker wrote on 21/07/2023 06:22: On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 at 16:41, Nick Hilliard via db-wg wrote: the job of a chair is to ensure that the business of the forum is done, in an orderly and efficient way. Where is this stated? Denis, It's stated in pretty much every formal description

Re: [db-wg] Removing "rev-srv:" remarks from inetnum objects in the RIPE database

2023-07-20 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 20/07/2023 14:50: As mentioned in my Operational Update at RIPE86, I propose to remove these obsolete remarks from all objects, on *Thursday 27th July*. this + removal of the "LOCKED" notice look completely reasonable. Nick -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [db-wg] Where are we with NWIs?

2023-07-20 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Randy Bush via db-wg wrote on 20/07/2023 00:22: I approve of more active WG management for the good of the internet. i do not. i am ok with a co-chair explicitly taking their co-chair hat off and having an opinion with the same weight as everyone else. i am as happy with activist wg-chairs

Re: [db-wg] Route(6) objects

2023-07-12 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Kaupo Ehtnurm wrote on 12/07/2023 14:43: I was hoping that somebody is experienced with this situation and could advise me, what the correct way by-the-book would be. a /32 will work just fine. The IRRDB design is too simplistic to model even basic inter-domain routing policies properly, so

Re: [db-wg] Route(6) objects

2023-07-12 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Kaupo Ehtnurm wrote on 10/07/2023 08:06: No, but I was wondering what do other AS-s do with my ipv6 prefix, if they are using IRR filtering in bgp. I am not talking only about providers and providers providers. I am talking about all the AS-s in that participate in the global table and accept

Re: [db-wg] Route(6) objects

2023-07-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Did your ddos provider say that their upstreams required exact route6 matches for your announcements?  The bgp session between you and your DDOS provider definitely won't require this, and the likelihood is that a covering /32 route6: object will be sufficient in many cases for your provider's

Re: [db-wg] Set default maintainer on locked inetnum resources

2023-02-09 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 09/02/2023 13:31: The DB team wishes to update these inetnums with the responsible LIR's default maintainer, so they can be maintained by the LIR without needing to contact the RIPE NCC. We will inform the affected maintainers. Please let me know your comments.

Re: [db-wg] Proposed Service Criticality Form

2022-12-12 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 12/12/2022 13:43: Dear colleagues, Please find attached our proposed service criticality form for your review. We hope to receive your feedback by 23 December. Hi Ed, there's no mention in here of the rpki database. Is this handled separately? Nick --

Re: [db-wg] will NWI-19 break routing?

2022-12-01 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Cynthia Revström wrote on 30/11/2022 22:59: I am not sure if this feature is used or not however I think this is a very good reason to not go forward with a clean-up (at least until we have properly evaluated things). We will probably have to figure out some other way to deal with objects that

Re: [db-wg] proposal: disallow creation of new non-hierarchically named AS-SET objects

2022-11-30 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Niall O'Reilly via db-wg wrote on 30/11/2022 16:15: If we indeed don't need a policy, I think it would be cleaner to make this a new NWI, as adding to an NWI after implementation work has begun seems, IMESHO, likely to cause confusion. agreed. In terms of breakage, we're carrying a 25yo

Re: [db-wg] will NWI-19 break routing?

2022-11-30 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker wrote on 30/11/2022 14:26: This is an interesting point. I know nothing about bgpq3 or peval (even though it has been around since the beginning of time). So I just read the documentation on GitHub for them. I never realised this feature existed. What you have described here Nick is

Re: [db-wg] proposal: disallow creation of new non-hierarchically named AS-SET objects

2022-11-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Cynthia Revström wrote on 29/11/2022 18:56: I agree with Nick. However there are currently as-set objects in RIPE based on aut-num objects in RIPE-NONAUTH. I think it might be worth considering if these should be cleaned up. I posted about this about a week ago in a separate thread on db-wg.

Re: [db-wg] proposal: disallow creation of new non-hierarchically named AS-SET objects

2022-11-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker wrote on 29/11/2022 13:00: If we allow these objects to authorise hierarchical AS-SET objects with 'source: RIPE' we have in effect turned non authoritative data back into authoritative data. If we give the related AS-SET objects 'source: RIPE-NONAUTH' we make it clear that these

Re: [db-wg] proposal: disallow creation of new non-hierarchically named AS-SET objects

2022-11-24 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Niall O'Reilly via db-wg wrote on 23/11/2022 18:17: What I have in mind is AS-NIALLSPECIAL, which I populate with a list of AS numbers which I want to advertise to let others know that these are to be handled in some special way, unlike those in AS-NIALLNORMAL. According to operational

Re: [db-wg] proposal: disallow creation of new non-hierarchically named AS-SET objects

2022-11-22 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker via db-wg wrote on 22/11/2022 19:00: Any thoughts on this? There are 2128 AUT-NUM objects with source RIPE-NONAUTH. Do we want these to be able to authorise the creation of hierarchical AS-SET objects when we don't know who maintains the AUT-NUM objects? I don't see a particular

Re: [db-wg] proposal: disallow creation of new non-hierarchically named AS-SET objects

2022-11-20 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Job Snijders via db-wg wrote on 20/11/2022 13:07: I'd argue that the rules for what constitute valid hierarchical names should not be changed; so the second component of the name doesn't need to start with 'AS-'. you mean "does need to start with 'AS-'"? I don't see how rfc2622 allows naked

Re: [db-wg] Support for "::" notation in the "members" field

2022-11-04 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
James Bensley via db-wg wrote on 04/11/2022 08:46: I want to discuss a format change to the "members" field of the AS-SET and Route-Set objects in the RIPE DB. I do not know what the process is for this so please guide me if this is the wrong place to raise this. you're not wrong about the

Re: [db-wg] 2022-01 Review Phase (Personal Data in the RIPE Database)

2022-10-20 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Sander Steffann via db-wg wrote on 09/10/2022 12:33: The executive board feedback corresponds to my opinion on this policy, especially these points: - It significantly reduces the usability for one of its core purpose - being able to contact resource holders about their number resources. - It

Re: [db-wg] Using the RIPE Database for IPAM

2022-09-15 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker via db-wg wrote on 13/09/2022 14:16: I was struggling to know exactly what is meant by the phrase "using the RIPE Database as an IPAM solution". the dbtf interpreted this as something along the lines of: "using the RIPE Database as the canonical reference for the holder's

Re: [db-wg] IRT object postal address

2022-07-19 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker via db-wg wrote on 19/07/2022 17:16: Does anyone think we actually need a postal address for a contact for a CSIRT team? the irt object was requested by the CSIRT community. It would be good to get input from them about this. Nick -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get

Re: [db-wg] 2022-01 V2 Resource Holders Address

2022-06-24 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ron, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 24/06/2022 00:40: Second as was previously discussed, responsiblity, both legal and otherwise, for any unnecessary "leakage" of PII under GDPR belongs to the party that first leaked the data. So if some telecom company is carelessly shoveling their

Re: [db-wg] 2022-01 V2 Resource Holders Address

2022-06-23 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker via db-wg wrote on 22/06/2022 23:54: Perhaps the RIPE NCC can publish the top entries from a new set of these stats. If anyone then wishes to contest the numbers they can take it up directly with the RIPE NCC. fwiw, the ripe ncc has consistently been clear that there is a handful

Re: [db-wg] 2022-01 V2 Resource Holders Address

2022-06-19 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker via db-wg wrote on 16/06/2022 16:05: I have listened to your comments in recent discussions and had some preliminary talks with the RIPE NCC about what could be implemented. So now we have a second version of my proposal on personal data. There are some fairly serious structural

Re: [db-wg] rfc2770

2022-06-02 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Gert Doering via db-wg wrote on 02/06/2022 14:59: On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 04:55:12PM +0300, Max Tulyev via db-wg wrote: May be you know, if you have a 16-bit ASN, you have a /24 IPv4 network reserved for you for multicast purposes. It is 233.asnum-hi-octets.asnum-lo-octets.0/24:

Re: [db-wg] phone number required for person objects

2022-05-25 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Leo Vegoda via db-wg wrote on 25/05/2022 19:28: I think that the reason phone was mandatory is that it was the de-facto standard. I agree that e-mail is now. But will it remain so? If we are building for the future then we should consider the possibility that the future will look different from

Re: [db-wg] 2022-01 New Policy Proposal (Personal Data in the RIPE Database)

2022-05-25 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
This came up quite a bit at the dbtf, where several of us came into the discussion with fingers on the throttle of their chain saws. By the end of the TF discussions, there was a pretty sober realisation that it was not going to be trivial to get from where we are now, to where we might want

Re: [db-wg] Recognisition of Kosovo and adding of LIR signup options with Kosovo as well as XK in inet(6)num

2022-05-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
George Michaelson via db-wg wrote on 13/05/2022 01:59: Really? Geo is better solved. by Geofeed. There's an RFC for how to tell people where a network documents its intended use of resources, we do better to follow it in my opinion country: isn't intended for geolocation. It's the country

Re: [db-wg] Decision on NWI-4 INETNUM status values

2022-04-04 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Leo Vegoda via db-wg wrote on 04/04/2022 20:50: Why do they need to register this assignment? Why can the allocation not be left as it is and assumed to be used by the organisation holding it? What am I missing? it's a fly in the ointment. There are three options to handle this situation,

Re: [db-wg] Decision on NWI-4 INETNUM status values

2022-04-04 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker wrote on 04/04/2022 17:00: Maybe you can start by explaining why this change 'will' cause breakage in the wild and how significant that breakage will be. Denis, you were clear in your email earlier today that you believe that your proposed solution for NWI-4 will cause problems.

Re: [db-wg] Decision on NWI-4 INETNUM status values

2022-04-04 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker wrote on 04/04/2022 16:16: Many people have asked for a solution to this problem over recent years. The chairs have tried to get some discussion on the topic many times. Perhaps now we can have that discussion... Sounds good - so long as the discussion comes before the solution!

Re: [db-wg] Decision on NWI-4 INETNUM status values

2022-04-04 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker via db-wg wrote on 04/04/2022 13:38: If there are no objections to this, the co-chairs now ask the RIPE NCC to produce an impact/implementation report to add this new status value and include the business rules to restrict it's use. Denis, This came up in an email of yours from

Re: [db-wg] Smallest IPv4 allocation size (in the RIPE region)?

2021-08-18 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 18/08/2021 13:35: Regardless of the exact status, I remain perplexed to see blocks with prefix lengths greater than /24 in the daily RIPE stats file. not sure why you're perplexed? They're legitimate assignments. The public DFZ isn't the only game in

Re: [db-wg] Update: Bogon Route objects (part 2)

2021-08-05 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 05/08/2021 14:10: I would like to suggest that at the very least these should be moved to NONAUTH, but preferably deleted altogether. there's no way of updating a route(6) object with an bogus ASN, i.e. these objects cannot be corrected. If you

Re: [db-wg] Bogon cleanup -- Current anomalies

2021-07-23 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Gert Doering via db-wg wrote on 23/07/2021 14:54: While Anycast 6to4 needs to die, it isn't fully dead yet. So routes for these two prefixes are legitimate. the discussion is whether it's appropriate for the RIPE NCC to continue to publish route objects for this prefix, which is a different

Re: [db-wg] Bogon cleanup -- Current anomalies

2021-07-22 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 20/07/2021 21:11: (To Ronald and the list) Should we add other sources of bogon prefixes (e.g. RFC 3068) to the implementation? it's had an interesting history, but as Cynthia points out, the 192.88.99.0/24 assignment is now terminated, so it's unassigned /

Re: [db-wg] Further cleanup (was: RIPE NONAUTH route(6) objects using unregistered space cleanup - deployment *today*)

2021-07-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 07/07/2021 15:05: So 23456 is*not* excluded, but it can be if the DB-WG agrees. just to be clearer: AS23456 should be included in the list of ASNs which cannot be used as the origin. Any objects which refer to it should be flagged for deletion. Nick

Re: [db-wg] blocking '23456' as value for the origin attribubte in route/route6 objects?

2021-07-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Cynthia Revström via db-wg wrote on 07/07/2021 15:44: I think that AS23456 should be excluded as I can't think of any good reason for having such a route object and seemingly no one else either as there are none currently. at one point years ago, before asn32s-capable software was widely

Re: [db-wg] RIPE NONAUTH route(6) objects using unregistered space cleanup - deployment *today*

2021-06-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 29/06/2021 10:27: If you have any feedback, please let us know. yip - any route which overlaps any prefix block which was marked as reserved or invalid between 2018-09-04 and today, by any RIR, for more than the RIR's reclamation pool cool-down period,

Re: [db-wg] RIPE NONAUTH route(6) objects using unregistered space cleanup - deployment *today*

2021-06-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Cynthia Revström via db-wg wrote on 29/06/2021 14:00: I might have a different opinion if it is a huge amount of objects that could be cleaned up or if it is such a tiny amount that maybe just contacting the maintainers manually would be enough. Summary: I don't think it is a good idea unless

Re: [db-wg] Removal of bogon route objects

2021-06-14 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 14/06/2021 15:16: Thanks, that was my question, should we validate that*either* the IP or AS is unregistered, or*both* IP and AS are unregistered (and you indicated*either*). definitely if the prefix is unregistered. If there's a nonauth route object

Re: [db-wg] Removal of bogon route objects

2021-06-14 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 13/06/2021 23:30: Assuming that that is the current plan, then Ed's results and mine are in reasonably close agreement with regards to the number of IPv4 route objects that need to be purged, i.e. some 800+. Your figure is nearly double that, so obviously,

Re: [db-wg] Removal of bogon route objects

2021-06-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 11/06/2021 08:35: In total I found 825 route objects and 57 route6 objects with unregistered prefixes, and which are now eligible for deletion. Taking both non-merger transfers and unregistered / reserved prefixes into account, I figure 1555 ipv4 prefixes and

Re: [db-wg] Removal of bogon route objects

2021-06-11 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 11/06/2021 22:19: Could you please post the 5 URLs for those 5 RIR delegated stats files? There's a convention. Each RIR has a short name: afrinic apnic arin lacnic ripencc and a stats ftp directory: ftp://ftp.afrinic.net

Re: [db-wg] Removal of bogon route objects

2021-06-11 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 11/06/2021 13:44: 192.175.48.0/24 That last one appears to be an error on my part... and I will be trying to figure out how & why that one got into my set. This prefix is listed in ARIN's delegated stats

Re: [db-wg] "status:" attribute values in the RIPE database

2021-06-08 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 08/06/2021 00:48: The last time I checked, there was nothing within any of the relevant RFCs that explicity stipulated that the user-id portion of an email address either SHALL or MUST or SHOULD be treated as case insensitive the part of an

Re: [db-wg] created: field value

2021-05-28 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 28/05/2021 04:10: Given that 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z is rather well known to be the beginning of UNIX time (i.e. time: 0) I could not help but be a bit suspicious of the value in the created: field of the record shown above. It just means that the object

Re: [db-wg] Time for new Announcements?

2021-03-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Marcel Zimmer via db-wg wrote on 13/03/2021 08:07: Do you have a tip for me where I should go troubleshooting? the prefixes are being originated by both as8422 and as212033. If you ask as8422 to stop announcing it, it should swing over to 212033. Nick

Re: [db-wg] Fwd: [anti-abuse-wg] 196.52.0.0/14 revoked, cleanup efforts needed

2021-01-30 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Marco Schmidt wrote on 26/01/2021 14:43: We don’t think a policy is necessary for this work, but we strongly believe we need an approach similar to NWI-5: "Inform the object holder that these IRR object(s) refer to an unallocated space. We will then delete them after a reasonable

Re: [db-wg] [anti-abuse-wg] 196.52.0.0/14 revoked, cleanup efforts needed

2021-01-22 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Niall O'Reilly wrote on 22/01/2021 09:55: Creating a policy seems to me to be too heavy an approach in this case. I would think that a simple request from the DB WG to the NCC should be enough. If a greater degree of formality were considered necessary, a new NWI could be created. there are

[db-wg] Fwd: [anti-abuse-wg] 196.52.0.0/14 revoked, cleanup efforts needed

2021-01-20 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
196.52.0.0/14 seems to have been revoked by afrinic: $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net " --list-versions 196.52.0.0/14" | grep -i delete % This object was deleted on 2021-01-16 05:56 $ Regarding cleanup of route: objects for this this (and other) unregistered address space in the ripe irrdb,

Re: [db-wg] Fwd: proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:

2021-01-11 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Randy Bush via db-wg wrote on 10/01/2021 23:36: as today's legal authority, can you tell me if gdpr applies to all parts of the british isles? asking for a friend. If you're referring to the UK, the EU GDPR no longer applies there, at least not since our close colleagues left the EU. They

Re: [db-wg] missing data

2020-11-05 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 05/11/2020 13:12: And more to the point, where may I find the real, actual, and complete set of zone files? Are they hidden away behind some curtain, or in some secret room? Who do I have to know in order to be invited to view the real zonefiles that are

Re: [db-wg] NWI reviews: NWI-3 - Afrinic IRR Homing

2020-10-01 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Job Snijders wrote on 30/09/2020 21:38: A change of scope probably warrants a new NWI, as NWI-3 was (at the time, in that context) specificly targetted to help mop up after the transfer of inetnum/inetnum6s when AFRINIC was instantiated. you're probably right here. The thinking in developing

Re: [db-wg] NWI reviews: NWI-3 - Afrinic IRR Homing

2020-10-01 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Frank Habicht via db-wg wrote on 30/09/2020 22:15: Yes. but slightly different topic: if an inetnum from AfriNIC gets reclaimed by AfriNIC (with consent of the holder, not that it matters), can the route object from RIPE-NONAUTH get deleted? assuming maintainer access is lost - person left

Re: [db-wg] NWI reviews: NWI-3 - Afrinic IRR Homing

2020-09-30 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Job Snijders via db-wg wrote on 30/09/2020 21:07: I agree. The combination of NWI-5 and RIPE-731 obsoleted NWI-3. There is nothing left for RIPE to further improve here. RIPE-NONAUTH is slowly and steadily decreasing in size. AFRINIC resource holders have all the tools available to publish

Re: [db-wg] 57.224.0.0/11

2020-09-22 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 22/09/2020 20:41: I should also mention however that I find one small bit of ISO-3166 itself objectionable. This calls for the territories known as her majesty's kingdom of Great Britian & Northern Ireland to be designated as "GB", which I personally find

Re: [db-wg] 57.224.0.0/11

2020-09-22 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Aftab Siddiqui wrote on 22/09/2020 12:30: Just for my understanding, do you need a policy for the NCC to offer "whowas[1]" service? I wouldn't see why that was necessary tbh. There's already a good deal of historical information in the ripedb about previous versions of objects, which means

Re: [db-wg] 57.224.0.0/11

2020-09-22 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 22/09/2020 03:13: I'm not sure that the created date should be altered however when an existing block, legacy or otherwise, is simply shrunk, as appears to have happaned in this case. the better long-term fix might be to make network block history

Re: [db-wg] 57.224.0.0/11

2020-09-21 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 21/09/2020 09:47: inetnum:57.224.0.0 - 57.255.255.255 Wasn't the whole of 57.0.0.0/8 registered to SITA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks 57.0.0.0/8 RIPE NCC1995-05 Formerly SITA.

Re: [db-wg] mntner with misleading primary key

2020-09-08 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
ripedenis--- via db-wg wrote on 01/09/2020 23:56: Let me try to revive this conversation and see if we have a consensus. There seemed to be two main issues: 1/ MNTNER names not having a clear 'tag' indicating a MNTNER object 2/ MNTNER names specifically confused with ASNs For the first part we

Re: [db-wg] RPSL parser nits

2020-08-16 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Horváth Ágoston János wrote on 16/08/2020 19:57:> The ripe whois database (https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois) has an excellent (=clean, performant and heavily tested) RPSL parser in it for java. It's minimal work to copy the package, or, since this is BSD licence, you could release a copy of it

Re: [db-wg] NWI-11 Internationalised Domain Names

2020-07-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
George Michaelson via db-wg wrote on 10/07/2020 01:15: Raw UTF-8 would work better here. It would permit the model to be extended naturally into multiple script models. I understand its inherently more complex than uplift to punycode of the domain elements in things, but the underlying problem

Re: [db-wg] Puny code or UTF-8 (or both)?

2020-07-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
ripedenis--- via db-wg wrote on 13/07/2020 13:12: There has been support shown to introduce Puny code as a first step towards internationalisation of the data, which can be done quickly by the RIPE NCC. Do we therefore have support to introduce Puny code now and then consider how to move

Re: [db-wg] NWI-11 Internationalised Domain Names

2020-07-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Gert Doering via db-wg wrote on 07/07/2020 16:21: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Benedikt Neuffer wrote: I think at the moment it would be easier to update the clients to convert punycode in whatever encoding you prefer. Cementing this abomination even more... No-one likes

Re: [db-wg] RPSL requirements in aut-num objects

2020-07-02 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Tom Hill via db-wg wrote on 02/07/2020 18:32: In the case of (i), who in their right mind expects that data to be accurate? the last time I looked at this (preso in ripe59, routing-wg) there was no discernible relationship between rpsl and what was appearing in the dfz, i.e. r looked like it

Re: [db-wg] RPSL parser nits

2020-07-02 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Lutz Donnerhacke via db-wg wrote on 02/07/2020 15:47: I try to be a bit more expressive in the aut-num of ASN199284, but fail to get accepted at least the valid parts by the RPSL parser. rpsl(ng) hasn't seen any significant development work since the 1990s, and the only real update since then

Re: [db-wg] mntner with misleading primary key

2020-07-01 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Tom Hill via db-wg wrote on 01/07/2020 15:56: I'm unable to construct a query to the RIPEDB that looks for mntner objects beginning with 'as', in order to gauge how common this is. I suspect that's because the phrase is too short, but if it is possible please do enlighten me! :) No direct way

Re: [db-wg] Question regarding delta between "delegated-ripencc-extended-latest" and Whois output

2020-06-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Peter Müller wrote on 29/06/2020 20:54: What would you do if you need to build a database to determine the country assigned to an IP address - let's take the one assigned to it by it's owner, regardless of jurisdiction or physical location -? There's no short or easy answer to this - if there

Re: [db-wg] Question regarding delta between "delegated-ripencc-extended-latest" and Whois output

2020-06-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Peter Müller via db-wg wrote on 29/06/2020 18:30: While the RIPE Whois server returned "NL" as the country of that subnet [1], the "delegated-ripencc-extended-latest" file available at ftp.ripe.net [2] only contains 51.15.0.0/16, which points to "FR". Since the first one result contains the

Re: [db-wg] NWI-11 Internationalised Domain Names

2020-06-27 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Leo Vegoda via db-wg wrote on 26/06/2020 17:54: From my personal perspective, this is a welcome first step on the road towards strong internationalization support in the RIPE Database. It also seems like a conservative deployment that has a low probability of causing interoperability problems

Re: [db-wg] Not yet NWIs: Support for IDNs

2020-05-22 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Leo Vegoda via db-wg wrote on 21/05/2020 23:35: At RIPE 80, Denis asked for feedback on some items that are not yet NWIs, including internationalized domain names. My feedback is that the RIPE Database should support internationalized e-mail addresses. The RIPE region includes a number of

Re: [db-wg] NWI-10 Definition of Country

2019-10-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
ripedenis--- via db-wg wrote on 07/10/2019 10:28: While the country code attribute in the RIPE Database can be updated directly by the resource holder, the Extended Delegated Statistics are maintained by the RIPE NCC and they were created as part of a joint effort from the RIRs with a specific

Re: [db-wg] ORG record vetting ?

2019-07-30 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 30/07/2019 05:11: Which can easily be forged. Ron, Yes, obviously. Everything which can be created can also be forged. This includes company registration documentation with national legal authorities. I.e. national registration authorities are well

Re: [db-wg] ORG record vetting ?

2019-07-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 29/07/2019 18:39: In that document section 1.1 (a) seem to the one one and only section relevant to my question: a. Proof of establishment/registration Normally, proof of establishment of a legal person can be registration with the national

Re: [db-wg] ORG record vetting ?

2019-07-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
There are ways of flagging whether this process was carried out. One option would be to use a binary flag. Another would be to implement a datestamp for the last due diligence process carried out if it's not been set by the NCC. Lack of data could be flagged by either the absence of the

Re: [db-wg] ORG record vetting ?

2019-07-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Randy Bush via db-wg wrote on 29/07/2019 14:40: i am not speaking for or against, as i do not understand what the threat model is. the idea is that some org objects are created by users and inserted into the ripe database while others are subject to due diligence by the ripe ncc. I.e.

Re: [db-wg] ORG record vetting ?

2019-07-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
On 29 Jul 2019, at 12:02, Carlos Friaças wrote: > > Perhaps excluding jurisdictions *outside* the RIPE NCC service region, where > company related data *can't* be verified by the RIPE NCC. The RIPE NCC doesn’t claim verification. It only states due diligence. Nick

Re: [db-wg] ORG record vetting ?

2019-07-29 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Jacob Slater via db-wg wrote on 29/07/2019 06:25: In this context, RIPE's published guidelines on due diligence (https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-700) cover what exactly is checked. From my experience, the guidelines are always enforced as written. As you mention, due to a variety of

Re: [db-wg] Out-Of-Region routes ?

2019-07-03 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 03/07/2019 11:49: My recollection is that there came a time ... I can no longer remember if that was just last year or the year before... when it was decided and implmented that the RIPE DB would no longer allow the addition of route objects for

Re: [db-wg] Suggestion further validity-checking

2019-05-28 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote on 28/05/2019 12:12: Unfortunately, no cleanup was done when this rule was implemented, but in recent times we try to do this. I will also contact the maintainers of these route objects and ask them to fix the holes attribute(s). I wonder if this key should be

Re: [db-wg] Whois Release Process

2019-05-23 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Cynthia Revström via db-wg wrote on 23/05/2019 14:26: Ed proposed a change to the WHOIS release process at the DB-WG session @ RIPE78. This change would be to immediately deploy bug fixes without a release candidate. I would just like to voice my opinion on it, so my thought is that maybe

Re: [db-wg] NWIs update

2019-04-10 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Gert Doering wrote on 10/04/2019 09:22: Well, it wasn't clear if "store unencrypted" referred to the client or server side. On the server side, yes, please store one-way hashed in a secure fashion. How though? Again, thinking out loud, it's easy enough if you implement using an unsalted

Re: [db-wg] NWIs update

2019-04-10 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Gert Doering wrote on 10/04/2019 08:52: You could, certainly, argue that nobody should do RIPE DB updates in an automated way... not at all - I love APIs. We need more APIs. I was just wondering out loud about how to store access tokens securely. Nick

Re: [db-wg] NWIs update

2019-04-10 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Tore Anderson wrote on 10/04/2019 06:19: Indeed. When stage 1 of NWI-8 is implemented, I was planning to propose an NWI to allow for creating API keys for database maintenance at https://lirportal.ripe.net/api/ (i.e., for use with Syncupdates and the RESTful API). you mean a single-factor

Re: [db-wg] NWIs update

2019-04-09 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Cynthia Revström via db-wg wrote on 09/04/2019 16:38: I would also like to add that for my purposes, I would need an MD5-PW auth on that mntner too since I use the WHOIS API. it might be a better idea to look at ways of improving authentication on the whois api rather than going a step

Re: [db-wg] Idea: magic mntner for all LIR contacts

2019-01-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker wrote on 07/01/2019 11:51: then we can get even more flexible if the LIR portal allows you to define set names for lists of SSO auths. So instead of just flagging a contact to be included in 'the' list of expanded SSO auths, you can add a csl of list names in the portal. Then you

Re: [db-wg] Idea: magic mntner for all LIR contacts

2019-01-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Cynthia Revström via db-wg wrote on 07/01/2019 10:27: I think the current main suggestion is to add a new DB auth scheme, such as "auth: SSO-LIR no.foobar" that includes all the SSO accounts linked to the LIR except for Billing accounts. Denis is just pointing out that it may not be advisable

Re: [db-wg] Idea: magic mntner for all LIR contacts

2019-01-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Tore Anderson via db-wg wrote on 07/01/2019 09:32: * Cynthia Revström via db-wg I do think that something like SSO would be good but probably another DB auth scheme, like this: auth: SSO-LIR no.foobar I prefer this so that it is just clear that it is a different thing. No objections from

Re: [db-wg] RIPE Policy Proposal 2018-06 Aims to Delete Conflicting Non-authorative IRR Objects

2018-10-15 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
On 15 Oct 2018, at 13:00, Job Snijders wrote: > > If we deconstruct RIPE-NONAUTH’s current state of affairs we already are > facing a irreversible concept: if one deletes an object in RIPE-NONAUTH, it > can never be restored. If someone deletes their nonauth route/route6, they’re making an

Re: [db-wg] RIPE Policy Proposal 2018-06 Aims to Delete Conflicting Non-authorative IRR Objects

2018-10-15 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
On 15 Oct 2018, at 11:31, Job Snijders wrote: > > I'm hesitant to add such things because we don't have such a > notification & grace period in BGP Origin Validation process when > processing BGP route announcements either. You don’t need one there. If there’s a problem with those you can back

Re: [db-wg] RIPE Policy Proposal 2018-06 Aims to Delete Conflicting Non-authorative IRR Objects

2018-10-14 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Job Snijders via db-wg wrote on 14/10/2018 11:40: This policy proposal concerns exclusively the RIPE-NONAUTH IRR database. If you feel strongly about the information in the "RIPE" IRR source feel free to make a new proposal. There's no need for a new proposal: a notification mechanism and a

Re: [db-wg] RIPE Policy Proposal 2018-06 Aims to Delete Conflicting Non-authorative IRR Objects

2018-10-14 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Job Snijders wrote on 14/10/2018 07:48: When an operator makes a mistake, they've made a mistake. When someone needs to create multiple ROAs, but only publishes one - it is an operator error. When one misconfigures things... they are misconfigured, no big deal. operator error happens all

Re: [db-wg] PERSON objects in the RIPE Database

2018-10-07 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker wrote on 25/09/2018 23:55: So really the only question that must be answered is "Can we justify holding this amount of personal data on the basis of contacts for administrative and technical issues relating to internet resources and network operations?" If the answer is 'no' then

Re: [db-wg] remove bogon prefixes in the RIPE IRR NON-AUTH DB?

2018-10-05 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Yes please. This is a very sensible thing to do. Bogons do not belong in a public IRR. Nick Job Snijders via db-wg wrote on 04/09/2018 11:46: Dear WG, I'd like to raise the issue of bogon prefixes in the RIPE IRR, and ask RIPE NCC to remove all "bogon" route object registrations from the

Re: [db-wg] PERSON objects in the RIPE Database

2018-09-25 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
denis walker via db-wg wrote on 20/09/2018 13:04: This does raise a number of questions: the requirement for admin-c and tech-c derive from what was thought to be useful information to have at hand at the time when network registrations were starting out at the InterNIC, way back in the late

Re: [db-wg] [anti-abuse-wg] The Ongoing Summer of Hijacks: MNT-SERVERSGET / dnsget.top

2018-08-14 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 14/08/2018 21:53: None of them have even had the courtesy to send me a FOAD message in response. Their silence on these matters is deafening. Yes, and there is not a problem with this. The RIPE NCC board of directors are not involved in day-to-day

Re: [db-wg] A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object

2018-06-13 Thread Nick Hilliard via db-wg
BUSH, RANDY, DBWGOPS would like to recall the message, "A test on AFRINIC range announcing without RIPE route object". ?

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