[db-wg] proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:'
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Cynthia Revström
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Wed Oct 7 14:14:10 CEST 2020
+1 this is a much more reasonable solution than remarks imo - Cynthia On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 18:29 Job Snijders via db-wg, <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote: > Dear DB-WG, > > Some colleagues are working to address the never-ending-story of 'where > the heck are IPs geographically?'. This problem space has been brought > up numerous times in the Database Working Group, but we never managed to > solve it. As with all compsci problems adding a layer of indirection can > help ;-) > > This current draft suggests overloading the RPSL 'remarks:' field with a > structured attribute value, however I suspect we would do ourselves a > disservice to overload a 'remarks:' field. > > Instead it would be better to add a 'geofeed:' attribute to the RPSL > inetnum/inetnum6 class dictionary, which as value contains a URL with > http or https scheme. > > The draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ymbk-opsawg-finding-geofeeds > > The value of the attribute could be validated using something like > "org.apache.commons.validator.UrlValidator", the attribute would look > like this, only valid in the inetnum/inet6num: > > "geofeed: [optional] [single] [ ]" > > Example object: > > inetnum: 192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.255 > netname: EXAMPLE > country: NL > geofeed: https://example.com/geofeed.csv > ... snip ... > source: RIPE > > What do others think? > > Kind regards, > > Job > > ps. In IRRd v4.2 support for the 'geofeed:' attribute will be added > https://github.com/irrdnet/irrd/issues/396 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20201007/a18649af/attachment.html>
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