Proposal for extended syntax for the 'country:' attribute
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Christian Panigl, ACOnet/UniVie +43 1 4065822-383
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Sat Jan 20 21:04:01 CET 1996
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 18:59:03 MET >From: "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <Wilfried.Woeber at cc.univie.ac.at> > >> Anyhow, of course it should be kept if there is any use for it ! But I >> don't think that introducing an additional provider *attribute* within >> the inetnum object will need the design-work for a provider *object* to >> be finished. The only thing that should be finished is the decision >> about the provider IDs which will be used as a DB key. > > Are you really talking "provider" (ISP) or are you talking "registry"? > In many cases these happen to be the same (organisation) but this is > not required. Sorry for the mixup: "registry" (LIR) of course ! > I think that we don't need the LIR info in objects describing > *assigned* addresses because the IR that performed the assignment can > be identified by looking at the less specific object(s). Yes, nevertheless I would like it, because 1. it would simplify lookups 2. it would emphasize that the address is *assigned* to a customer but still bound to a specific LIR (if this is politically correct ?) ! >> Ok, let's finish this sidestep and find a solution for the country >> attribute. > > I agree. Really now ?-) However, we should restart the discussion after the "country" stuff has been solved. > The provider (or TLD admin) concept might become interesting again when > we start to talk about hierarchical authorization for object creation, > like route objects and domain objects :-) Oh yea. Christian --- Christian Panigl : Vienna University Computer Center - ACOnet --- --- VUCC - ACOnet : -------------------------------------------- --- --- Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Internet: Christian.Panigl at CC.UniVie.ac.at --- --- A-1010 Vienna / Austria : Tel: +43 1 4065822-383 (Fax: -170) ---
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