[db-wg] [ncc-services-wg] RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT

At 17:28 07/04/2015 +0200, Andrea Cima wrote:

Thanks!

Works.

-Hank


>Hi Hank,
>
>Thanks for your email. The error message you received is normal, though
>it's understandable that it might be a little confusing.
>
>When a legacy Internet resource is covered by a contractual
>relationship, it receives the RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT maintainer, in
>addition to the End User's maintainer (as "mnt-by:"). For an object to
>be updated, only one of these two maintainers must pass the
>authentication. In this case, the update was not authenticated on your
>end, and so the error message is correctly telling you that neither our
>maintainer nor yours was authenticated.
>
>This legacy maintainer follows the same business rules as other RIPE NCC
>maintainers:
>
>- RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT can only be added or removed by the RIPE NCC
>- If RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT is present in AUT-NUM and INETNUM objects as
>MNT-BY, ORG-ID cannot be changed
>- If the ORGANISATION object is referenced in resources where
>RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT is present, then the "org-name:" cannot be edited by
>anyone other than the RIPE NCC.
>
>So this means that all other attributes can be updated with only the End
>User's maintainer and without involving the RIPE NCC.
>
>Please let me know if you have any further questions.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Andrea Cima
>Registration Services
>RIPE NCC
>
>
>On 7/4/15 14:03, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > Not sure which list is appropriate so please reply only to the list that
> > people point out as the one which should handle the following issue:
> >
> > I have modified a number of objects to be now LEGACY objects.  inet-nums
> > and aut-nums.
> > When the object is processed and converted into a LEGACY object, RIPE
> > auto-adds the following line to each object:
> > mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT
> >
> > This is documented here:
> > https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.77
> > Policy 2012-07: Legacy holder organisations cannot change their
> > organisation name in their org object if it is referenced by an INETNUM
> > or AUTNUM that is maintained by RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT.
> >
> > I then noticed I needed to delete some import and export lines on my
> > aut-num policy.
> >
> > No can do any more.  I now get the error:
> >
> > Authorisation for [aut-num] AS378 failed
> > using "mnt-by:"
> > not authenticated by: RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT, AS378-MNT
> >
> > So this now means *every* change to any legacy IP block or ASN has to go
> > via RIPE.  But I have been unable to find how to go about informing RIPE
> > that I need to make an object modification.    Any pointers would be
> > helpful.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hank
> >
> >