[sig-db]16th APNIC DB SIG Summary

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

Dear All,

As the APNIC DB-SIG, I would like to re-post the 16th APNIC Open Policy
Meeting Summary. 
Based on the newly adopted policy process, that the proposals of all
'consensus' 
items will be circulated on this mailing list for a further 2 months for 
comments and then presented to the EC for adoption at the next 
teleconference.

Best regards,

Xing Li

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Xing Li wrote:

 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 ???
 hidden??¨¤ 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.
 
 *              sig-db:  APNIC SIG on whois database issues           *