[db-wg] Fwd: proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:'

Hi Ed

Can you do a quick count on INETNUM and INET6NUM objects and see how
many currently have a "remarks: Geofeed" attribute and if any have
more than one.

An interesting question Robert. Perhaps an even more interesting one
is, if we implement the "geofeed:" attribute, should we allow anyone
to add any "remarks: Geofeed" or should we flag that as a syntax
error? Or will any tool that accesses this data ignore any "remarks:"
attributes if there is a "geofeed:" attribute?

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Robert Kisteleki via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 09:45
Subject: Re: [db-wg] proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:'
To: <db-wg at ripe.net>



On 2021-01-04 21:41, Randy Bush via db-wg wrote:
>> What happens when someone (or someone's automated system) pushes an
>> object with a "remarks: Geofeed" again?
>
> from draft-ietf-opsawg-finding-geofeeds
>
>       Any particular inetnum: object MAY have, at most, one geofeed
>       reference, whether a remarks: or a proper geofeed: attribute when
>       one is defined.
>
> now all we need is for the someone or someone's automated system to read
> the spec :)

Of course the question is "what should happen in the bad case", eg.
what's the expected behaviour if there are 2 or more "remarks: geofeed"
attributes?

Should the DB reject such an update? Should the geofeed client pick one
at random? Should it pick the first one? Or the last one? Or none?

Robert
(speaking for myself)