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Archived Plans

You can find our completed plans from previous quarters, along with requests from the community. We are updating this page at the end of each quarter.

2024 Plans and Community Input

Item 1: RDAP RIR Search

The team is working on the implementation of the 'RIR Search' feature. We have implemented a new feature, 'Basic Search Features', and are working on the 'Relation Searches' feature, which will be included in a future Whois release.

Status: In progress

Community input DB-2021#01: NWI-2 - Displaying history for database objects where available

DB-WG to define requirements for NWI-2.

Status: Under consideration

Community input DB-2021#02: NWI-4 - role of status: field in multivalued status context

The team completed the impact analysis of the 'ALLOCATED-ASSIGNED PA' status. We now have a decision from the co-chairs on NWI-4 to proceed with the new ALLOCATED-ASSIGNED PA status proposal. The team will implement this in a future Whois release.

Status: In progress

Community input DB-2021#04: NWI-12 - NRTMv4

Proposed Solution Definition to DB-WG, based on draft NRTM v4 proposal by Sasha Romijn. We worked on the server-side implementation and are now working on the client-side implementation. More information can be found on GitHub.

Status: In progress

2023 Plans and Community Input

Item 1: Open Full Text Search API

We opened the Full Text Search API to end users.

Completed in Q2 2023.

Item 2: Formulating a framework with the community to determine the level of criticality of each RIPE NCC service, including the RIPE Database.

We engaged with the community to define requirements and planned how to proceed with potential cloud migration and infrastructure improvements. Read more about our service criticality rating.

Completed in Q2 2023.

Item 3: Database documentation

We migrated the RIPE Database documentation to a new interface. Initially, we moved the base documentation and then migratedInitially any other DB support docs to the new site.

Completed in Q4 2023.

Item 4: Open Source Web Application

As announced at RIPE 85, we planned to publish the source code to our web application. After setting up a security audit, we completed this activity by RIPE 87.

Completed in Q4 2023.

Community input DB-2021#03: NWI-13 - Geofeed

We implemented Geofeed attribute in the RIPE Database. For more information, please read RFC 9092.

Completed in Q4 2023.

Community input DB-2021#04: NWI-12 - NRTMv4

Proposed Solution Definition to DB-WG, based on draft NRTM v4 proposal by Sasha Romijn. We worked on the server-side implementation. More information can be found on GitHub.

Completed in Q2 2023.

2022 Plans and Community Input

Item 1: Usability improvements to the web search

We made improvements to the web search function of the RIPE Database. You can find more details in our RIPE Labs article.

Completed in Q2 2022.

Item 2: RDAP profile

We are implementing the RDAP cidr0 and NRO profiles to express CIDR notation, increase consistency in service offerings and simplify the development of client software that uses those services.

Completed in Q4 2022.

Community input DB-2021#05: Investigate implementing UTF-8 in the RIPE Database

We published a RIPE Labs article explaining the impact of this change.

Completed in Q2 2022.

Community input DB-2021#06: Deprecation of Whitepages

We depreciated the whitepages after a community discussion on the topic.

Completed in Q1 2022.