[db-wg] Deployed 1.87.1 to RC - supporting business rules that allow phasing out object editors

Dear working group,

We deployed release 1.87.1* to RC today. This new Database release introduces several business rules that allow us to phase out object editors for LIRs in the near future. As announced by Alex Band to the services working group on 21 April: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2016-April/002999.html

Since this release does not introduce any other functional changes, we believe that a one week RC test period should be enough. And we propose to deploy this release to production next Wednesday 11 May, unless of course issues are found or concerns are raised. 

The new business rules ensure that once an LIR maintainer is added to "mnt-by:" of an LIR ORGANISATION object and/or INET(6)NUM objects for LIR allocations, attributes that are maintained by RIPE NCC remain maintainable by RIPE NCC only.

For organisation objects the following attributes will not be modifiable by the LIR: "organisation:"**, "org-name:", "org-type:", "address:" ***, "phone:" ***, "fax-no:" ***, "email:" ***, "mnt-by:" ****

For inet(6)num objects the following attributes will not be modifiable by the LIR: "inetnum:"**, "netname:", "org:", "sponsoring-org:" (on assignments, included here for completeness), "status:", "mnt-by:" ****

Please note that these changes only come into real effect after we deploy changes to the LIR Portal that allow LIRs to select a maintainer to use. We are working hard on this at this moment, but we are not sure whether we can have these changes ready before the RIPE Meeting, or that we will have to wait a bit longer. Of course we will communicate how this changes the way that LIRs can maintain their objects before that time.

Please let us know if you find any issues or have any concerns or questions,

Kind regards,

Tim Bruijnzeels
Assistant Manager Software Engineering
RIPE NCC Database Group


*: Note that we caught a small issue internally before we planned to deploy 1.87, hence the version currently deployed is 1.87.1.
**: primary key, so not modifiable - included here to make it clear that these objects are created by RIPE NCC
***: These fields will remain modifiable through the LIR Portal only for now, since they are stored both in the RIPE NCC internal member database and the RIPE Database
****: During the first phase of this effort the LIR can only choose one MNTNER to use, through the LIR Portal