[sig-db]summary of sig-db of apnic 17th

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

17th APNIC Open Policy Meeting
SIG: Database Summary
 
Chair: Xing Li
 
Thursday 26 February, 09:00 - 10:30, KL, Malaysia

This meeting is well attended. The following are the presentations and
the action items.

1. Review of 16th APNIC open action items by Xing Li
(1) Action db-16-001: Proposed "Policy for mirroring on IRR"
(prop-003-v001), to be sent to the database mailing list for further
discussion. Update: Modified proposal to be presented.
 (2) Action db-16-002: Secretariat to implement proposal "Privacy of
customer assignment records" (prop-007-v001) in three months.  Update:
Status report presented.
 (3) Action db-16-003: Secretariat to implement proposal "Protecting
resource records in APNIC Whois Database" (prop-010-v001). Update:
Status report presented.

2. A proposal "to protect historical records in APNIC Whois Database" by
Sanjaya, APNIC. This presentation discussed the problems experienced
with historical records in the APNIC Whois Database, such as abusive
activities using the resources. Historical records form 1.5% of the
records in the APNIC Whois Database. The problem arises because
historical records are not protected by an APNIC maintainer like APNIC
delegated resources. This has the result that anyone can attempt to
change historical records. The presenter proposed that all historical
records be protected by an APNIC-HM maintainer. Resource holders can
still use the resource, but must sign a formal agreement with APNIC to
maintain their records. To cover administrative costs, it was proposed
that a US$100 fee apply for each maintainer. Implementation of the
proposal would take seven months to implement.
Action:  (db-17-001) Pending approval at each remaining stage of the
policy proposal process, proposal to protect historical records with an
APNIC maintainer (prop-018-v001) to be implemented by Secretariat.

3. A proposal of "IRR mirroring policy" by Junichi Matsumoto, JPNIC IRR
planning team.  This proposal was a modified version of the proposal
presented at APNIC 16.  
Action:  (db-17-002) Proposal for IRR mirroring policy (prop-003-v002)
to be returned to the mailing list for further discussion.

4. A presentation of "Private of customer assignments status report" by
Sanjaya, APNIC.  This presentation summarized the APNIC Secretariat's
activities to implement db-16-002 and db-16-003. 
Action:  (db-16-002)  Secretariat to implement the proposal to prevent
customer records in the APNIC Whois Database being publicly available.
Update: To be implemented by the third quarter 2004.

5. A presentation of "Early registration transfer project" by George
Michaelson, APNIC.  This presentation summarized the issues in managing
the records for resources allocated before the RIR system was
established.