[db-wg] Validation on "org-name:" syntax (double spaces and newlines)
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Lu Heng
h.lu at anytimechinese.com
Sun Nov 12 08:03:27 CET 2017
I would prefer option 1, because it can make things easier for guys not familiar with unix system. On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 07:35 Tim Bruijnzeels via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote: > Dear Working Group, > > Out of 114181 ORGANISATION objects, 112 objects use multiple consecutive > whitespace in the “org-name:” attribute and only 1 uses a multi-line value. > While this is a tiny fraction these objects are a bit problematic to us > when we verify that the “org-name:” matches the name of the organisation > that we allocated or assigned resources to in our records. We also believe > that this is highly confusing to users and tools parsing these objects. > > Therefore we like to clean these objects up and remove any > multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences. We can of course follow up with > these organisation individually, but the reason that I bring it up here is > that we also want to have stricter syntax rules in place to prevent this > from happening again. We can do either of the following: > > 1) replace multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences on input (warn, but > just strip the additional space) > 2) reject multi-whitespace or multi-line occurrences on input > > I am leaning towards option 2, but I would value your input. > > Kind regards, > > Tim Bruijnzeels > Assistant Manager Software Engineering and Senior Technology Officer > RIPE NCC > -- -- Kind regards. Lu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20171112/0010fdd4/attachment.html>
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