RIPE Database Documentation

• 1. Introduction to the RIPE Database
  • 1.1 RIPE Database Documentation Overview
  • 1.2 Intended Audience
  • 1.3 Conventions Used in the RIPE Database Documentation
• 2. What is the RIPE Database?
  • 2.1 Purpose and Content of the RIPE Database
    • 2.1.1 Purpose of the RIPE Database
    • 2.1.2 RIPE Internet Number Registry
    • 2.1.3 The RIPE Internet Routing Registry
    • 2.1.4 Reverse Delegation in the RIPE Database
    • 2.1.5 Domain Names
    • 2.1.6 Administration of Internet Resources
    • 2.1.7 Mirrored Databases
    • 2.1.8 Criteria for a Mirrored Database
    • 2.1.9 I Want to Change Something in the RIPE Database
    • 2.1.10 RIPE Database Terms and Conditions
  • 2.2 History of the RIPE Database
    • 2.2.1 Background of the RIPE Database
    • 2.2.2 Versions of the RIPE Database
  • 2.3 Personal Data, Database Management and Responsibilities
    • 2.3.1 Personal Data in the RIPE Database
    • 2.3.2 Database Management
    • 2.3.3 Responsibilities of the RIPE NCC and Data Maintainers
• 3. RIPE Database Structure
  • 3.1 Database Objects
  • 3.2 Primary and Secondary Objects
  • 3.3 List of Primary Objects
  • 3.4 List of Secondary Objects
  • 3.5 The Attributes in Database Objects
  • 3.6 Attribute Names
  • 3.7 Attributes in an Object
  • 3.8 Attribute Values
    • 3.8.1 Split Values
    • 3.8.2 End-of-line Comments
    • 3.8.3 List Values
  • 3.9 Attribute Properties
    • 3.9.1 Presence
    • 3.9.2 Repeat
    • 3.9.3 Indexed
  • 3.10 How to Organise Your Data
    • 3.10.1 Using the Organisation Object
    • 3.10.2 Using the Role Object
    • 3.10.3 Abuse Details
    • 3.10.4 Who Maintains the Data?
    • 3.10.5 How do I keep an audit trail of changes to my data?
• 4. RPSL Object Types
  • 4.1 Description of Attributes Common to all Objects
  • 4.2 Descriptions of Primary Objects
    • 4.2.1 Description of the AUT-NUM Object
    • 4.2.2 Description of the DOMAIN Object
    • 4.2.3 Description of the INET6NUM Object
    • 4.2.4 Description of the INETNUM Object
    • 4.2.5 Description of the ROUTE Object
    • 4.2.6 Description of the ROUTE6 Object
    • 4.2.7 Description of the AS-SET Object
    • 4.2.8 Description of the FILTER-SET Object
    • 4.2.9 Description of the INET-RTR Object
    • 4.2.10 Description of the PEERING-SET Object
    • 4.2.11 Description of the ROUTE-SET Object
    • 4.2.12 Description of the RTR-SET Object
  • 4.3 Descriptions of Secondary Objects
    • 4.3.1 Description of the AS-BLOCK Object
    • 4.3.2 Description of the IRT Object
    • 4.3.3 Description of the KEY-CERT Object
    • 4.3.4 Description of the MNTNER Object
    • 4.3.5 Description of the ORGANISATION Object
    • 4.3.6 Description of the PERSON Object
    • 4.3.7 Description of the POEM Object
    • 4.3.8 Description of the POETIC-FORM Object
    • 4.3.9 Description of the ROLE Object
• 5. Available Databases
  • 5.1 RIPE Database
  • 5.2 TEST Database
  • 5.3 Release Candidate Database (RC)
  • 5.4 Experimental Databases
• 6. Methods of Updating the RIPE Database
  • 6.1 RIPE Database RESTful API
  • 6.2 Webupdates
  • 6.3 Syncupdates
  • 6.4 Email Updates
    • 6.4.1 MIME Support
    • 6.4.2 Subject Line Keywords
• 7. Updating Objects in the RIPE Database
  • 7.1 Format of the Update Message
  • 7.2 Accessing the Object Templates
  • 7.3 Object Processing
  • 7.4 Update Operations
  • 7.5 Historical Data
  • 7.6 Special Considerations for Object Creation
    • 7.6.1 Creating PERSON and ROLE Objects
    • 7.6.2 Reusing NIC Handles
    • 7.6.3 Creating ORGANISATION Objects
    • 7.6.4 New Organisation Startup
  • 7.7 Garbage Collection
  • 7.8 Dry-run
• 8. Set Objects
  • 8.1 Creating Set Objects
  • 8.2 Modifying and Deleting Set Objects
  • 8.3 The ROUTE-SET Object
  • 8.4 The RTR-SET Object
  • 8.5 The PEERING-SET Object
  • 8.6 The FILTER-SET Object
• 9. Notifications
  • 9.1 Acknowledgment Message
    • 9.1.1 Email Acknowledgement Message
    • 9.1.2 Syncupdates Acknowledgement Message
    • 9.1.3 Webupdates Acknowledgement Message
    • 9.1.4 RESTful API Acknowledgement Message
  • 9.2 Notification Messages
    • 9.2.1 Notification Attributes
    • 9.2.2 Format of the Notification Message
• 10. Authorisation
  • 10.1 Authorisation Model
  • 10.2 Using the Authorisation Methods
    • 10.2.1 MD5 Password
    • 10.2.2 PGP Key
    • 10.2.3 X.509 Certificate
    • 10.2.4 Single Sign-On
  • 10.3 Security of Data Using Authorisation
  • 10.4 Protection of PERSON and ROLE Objects
  • 10.5 Protection of AUT-NUM Object Space
  • 10.6 Protection of Address Space
  • 10.7 Protection of Route(6) Object Space
  • 10.8 Protection of Reverse Delegation Objects
  • 10.9 Protection of Objects with Hierarchical Names
  • 10.10 Protecting Membership of a Set
  • 10.11 Referencing an ORGANISATION Object
  • 10.12 Referencing an IRT Object
  • 10.13 Force Delete Functionality
• 11. How to Query the RIPE Database
  • 11.1 The Structure of a Query
  • 11.2 Web Query Form
  • 11.3 RESTful API Queries
    • 11.3.1 API Lookup
    • 11.3.2 API Search
  • 11.4 Command Line Queries
    • 11.4.1 Netcat
    • 11.4.2 Telnet
    • 11.4.3 Whois Client
  • 11.5 Query Responses
• 12. Access to Personal Data
  • 12.1 Blocking Access to the RIPE Database
• 13. Types of Queries
  • 13.1 Queries Using Primary and Lookup Keys
  • 13.2 Queries for IP Networks
    • 13.2.1 Default Queries for IP Network
    • 13.2.2 Exact Match Queries
    • 13.2.3 More Specific Range Queries
    • 13.2.4 Less Specific Range Queries
    • 13.2.5 Less Specific Range Queries For Referenced IRT Objects
  • 13.3 More and Less Specific Lookups For Reverse Domains
  • 13.4 Inverse Queries
  • 13.5 Grouping the RIPE Database Output
  • 13.6 Filtering the Query Response
  • 13.7 IRR Toolset Support
  • 13.8 Persistent Connections and Keeping State
  • 13.9 RIPE NCC Global Resource Service
  • 13.10 Other Query Flags
    • 13.10.1 The “-T” (“--select-types”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.2 The “-K” (“--primary-keys”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.3. The “-t” (“--template”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.4. The “-v” (“--verbose”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.5 The “-q” Query Flag
    • 13.10.6 The “-a” (“--all-sources”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.7 The “-s” (“--sources”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.8 The “-F” (“--brief”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.9 The “--valid-syntax” and “--no-valid-syntax” Query Flags
    • 13.10.10 The “-c” (“--irt”) Query Flag
    • 13.10.11 The “-C” (“--no-irt”) Query Flag
  • 13.11 Referenced Objects in Query Response
  • 13.12 Historical Queries
• Appendices
  • Appendix A- Syntax of Object Attributes
• Glossary
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