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Today's Topics:
- APNIC Whois role object - Proposed changes (George Odagi)
- Re: APNIC Whois role object - Proposed changes (Anupam Agrawal)
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 04:53:07 +0000
From: George Odagi godagi@apnic.net
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Subject: [sig-policy] APNIC Whois role object - Proposed changes
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Dear Community Members,
In light of the recent discussion about abuse role objects that were
created as a result of prop-125, we would like to share background
information about this implementation and consult with the community.
APNIC acknowledges this is a known issue caused by a limitation in
whois ? which requires the phone number and country attributes to be
mandatory in role objects. The abuse role objects are auto-generated
from IRT objects, where the phone number attribute is optional and the
country attribute which does not exist. This resulted in populating
the phone number with '+000000000' in the event no phone number was
provided in the IRT object and using the country 'ZZ' to indicate the
country is unspecified in the IRT object.
The current whois versions in the RIPE NCC and AFRINIC do not include
the country attribute and the phone number attribute is treated as
optional in role objects - for example, see RIPE NCC's template below:
Attribute Name Presence Repeat Indexed
role: mandatory single lookup key
address: mandatory multiple
phone: optional multiple
fax-no: optional multiple
e-mail: mandatory multiple lookup key
org: optional multiple inverse key
admin-c: optional multiple inverse key
tech-c: optional multiple inverse key
nic-hdl: mandatory single primary/lookup key
remarks: optional multiple
notify: optional multiple inverse key
abuse-mailbox: optional* multiple inverse key
mnt-by: mandatory multiple inverse key
created: generated single
last-modified: generated single
source: mandatory single
A potential solution would be to upgrade APNIC's whois code to
duplicate these whois rules. Doing so would result in removing the
country attribute from APNIC's role objects altogether, in addition to
making the phone number attribute optional. This would ensure that
information is accurately reflected in the IRT and abuse role objects.
We would like to hear your feedback or concerns about this proposed
change. We plan to present more details during APNIC 52.
Regards,
George Odagi
Senior Internet Resource & Policy Analyst, APNIC
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