[db-wg] mntner with misleading primary key

Hi Gert,

I was not suggesting it, I think it is a bad idea, but I interpreted the
following as Job suggesting it.
> I think a mandatory "-MNT" or "MNT-" or "-MAINT" is helpful because the
maintainers primary key string does pop up from time to time without any
context, and this can lead to confusion. See
https://seclists.org/nanog/2020/Jan/650 for a fun story about how one
person's email error code is another person's BGP autonomous system
reference. :-)

- Cynthia

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 9:05 PM Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:00:44PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020, at 20:52, Gert Doering wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:36:53PM +0200, Cynthia Revström via db-wg
> wrote:
> > > > I am not sure how feasible the mandatory "-mnt" would be at this
> point tbh.
> [..]
> > As I understand the conversation, the one option on the table to discuss
> is how to deal with primary keys that clash with other scopes of context,
> specifically autnums. Of those only 26 exist
> >
> > SPACENET-P does not look like an AS number so isn't an issue and doesn't
> need to change.
>
> This is true, but I was responding to Cynthia's suggestion of having a
> mandatory "-mnt".  Which would affect us - as I said, doable, but it needs
> to make sense.
>
> Of course if it's only about "looks like an ASN" mntners, I'll go back in
> my lurking corner and watch with interest :-)
>
> Gert Doering
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