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Tim Bruijnzeels
tim at ripe.net
Tue Jan 19 16:26:22 CET 2016
Dear working group, On 14 Jan 2016, at 17:54, Job Snijders <job at instituut.net> wrote: > > Dear Working group, RIPE NCC, > > Support was shown for this proposal and no objections were raised after > this round of discussion. > > I asked RIPE NCC schedules implementation of this plan as proposed by > Tim (keeping in mind Shane's comment about empty "descr:" attributes). Same as the RPSL maintainer (other thread) I expect that we can start work on this in February. But I can communicate a more detailed plan at the beginning of next week. Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels > > Thank you all for your time reviewing this! > > Kind regards, > > Job Snijders > DB-WG Chairs > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:23:02PM +0200, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote: >> Dear working groups, >> >> Following discussion in this group it was decided that the RIPE NCC >> should stop enforcing that the first "descr:" attribute of resource >> objects reflects the name of the organisation, for resources that it >> alloced or assigned. This practice has been place for a long time, but >> now that all such objects have a reference to an organisation object >> and the RIPE NCC ensures that this reflects the resource requests, >> this is no longer needed. >> >> Furthermore it was decided that the RIPE NCC should clean up existing >> organisation names in "descr:" attributes in order to: >> (1) avoid confusion about where the organisation name should be found; >> (2) avoid that the names here are different from the name of the actual organisation; >> (3) make it very clear which attributes are verified by RIPE NCC, and which attributes are not. >> >> Hereby the RIPE NCC would like to propose an implementation plan for >> these changes. We invite the working group to review and discuss if >> needed. As soon as the working group co-chairs formally call >> consensus, we can proceed to implement shortly. >> >> Implementation proposal: >> ======================== >> >> = Change "descr:" to an 'optional multiple' attribute >> >> We believe that the working group concluded that it would be >> appropriate to make "descr:" optional. The reason is that when the >> organisation name is cleaned up, there may be no description lines >> left. The working group considered whether the attribute should be >> 'single optional', but there seemed to be no strong preference for >> this, and it would have a bigger impact. Therefore we propose to go >> for the easier option of making it 'optional multiple'. >> >> Technically this change is not hard to do on the server side, but can >> impact users of the database because there may be no "descr:" >> attribute, and this can affect parsers. >> >> Because this can have an impact on automated systems the RIPE NCC will >> announce this change ncc-announce at ripe.net, and use a longer week >> staging period in the Release Candidate environment allowing users to >> test and update their systems. >> >> Dependent on formal consensus call we may be able to combine this with >> the upcoming release for deprecating "changed:" phase 3, to avoid >> delays. >> >> = Clean up existing "descr:" attributes where RIPE NCC enforced the organisation name >> >> The RIPE NCC will remove the "descr:" attributes that it has been enforcing. >> >> = Add "descr:" to allocation object editor in LIR Portal >> >> So that LIRs can edit this themselves. >> >> = Stop setting the "descr:" on new allocations or assignments done by the RIPE NCC >> >> We will leave "descr:" blank. It can be edited by the LIR or end-user later.
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