[sig-db]summary of the apnic 16 db-sig

[Xing Li <xing@cernet.edu.cn>]

16th APNIC Open Policy Meeting
SIG: Database Summary

Chair: Xing Li

11:20 am to 12:20 am Thursday 21 August 2003, Seoul, Korea

(1) The draft charter was adopted by consensus.
The charter of the Database SIG is to examine developments in the
operation of the APNIC Whois Database and to discuss related issues
affecting registration practices, database security, specification of
objects and database features. 

(2) Previous Open Action Items
* Action db-14-002: Secretariat to create sample hierarchical inetnum
objects with associated maintainer objects in the APNIC Whois Database.
Results to be presented at APNIC 15.
* Update: completed.

* Action db-15-001: Further discussion on requirements to host a local
whois to be put to the sig-db mailing list.
* Update: Closed

* Action db-15-002: Secretariat to clean up the database, deleting
unreferenced objects and modifying RPSL non-compliant objects.
* Update: completed.

(3) Policy Proposals 
3.1 Policy for mirroring on IRR
* Junichi Matsumoto, JPNIC
* This presentation proposed that there be restrictions be imposed on
the mirroring of Internet Routing Registries. It was proposed that each
IRR in a chain of  IRRs agree to the mirroring policy of the lower IRRs
in the chain. The implementation date of the policy would be 2nd quarter
2004. 
* Action items:  Db-16-001: IRR mirroring policy proposal to go to db
mailing list for further discussion.

3.2 Privacy of customer records
* Paul Wilson, APNIC
* This presentation looked at the issues related to customer assignments
being publically available in the whois database. Issues include privacy
and inaccurate records. It was proposed that a new attribute called ?¡ã
hidden?¡À be added to records so that they would not be publicly
available. However, assignments would still be required to be registered
in the database. Also, allocations would continue to be registered. The
presentation also looked at the impact the implementation of the policy
would have.
* Action items: db-16-002: Secretariat to implement the proposal to
prevent customer records in the APNIC Whois Database being publicly
available.

3.3 Protecting resource records in the APNIC Whois Database
* Sanjaya, APNIC
* This presentation explained that during the Whois v3 migration in
2002, all unprotected objects were temporarily maintained with the
MAINT-NULL maintainer. In APNIC 14, it was proposed to replace the
MAINT-NULL with the maintainer of the parent object. A pilot project was
carried out. The proposal is to replace all MAINT-NULL occurrences with
proper maintainer objects. The proposal is also to deprecate the use of
NONE in the maintainer?¡¥s auth attribute. 
* Action items: db-16-003: Proposal to maintainer of objects protected
by MAINT-NULL with the maintainer of the parent object to be implemented
by Secretariat.

(4) Informative Proposal
Whois database cleanup
* Sanjaya, APNIC
* This proposal reported on the implantation of a proposal given at
APNIC 15, action item db-15-001.