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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> db-wg <db-wg-bounces@ripe.net>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cynthia Revström via db-wg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 7 October 2020 14:14<br>
<b>To:</b> Job Snijders <job@instituut.net><br>
<b>Cc:</b> DB-WG <db-wg@ripe.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [db-wg] proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+1 this is a much more reasonable solution than remarks imo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 18:29 Job Snijders via db-wg, <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear DB-WG,<br>
<br>
Some colleagues are working to address the never-ending-story of 'where<br>
the heck are IPs geographically?'. This problem space has been brought<br>
up numerous times in the Database Working Group, but we never managed to<br>
solve it. As with all compsci problems adding a layer of indirection can<br>
help ;-)<br>
<br>
This current draft suggests overloading the RPSL 'remarks:' field with a<br>
structured attribute value, however I suspect we would do ourselves a<br>
disservice to overload a 'remarks:' field.<br>
<br>
Instead it would be better to add a 'geofeed:' attribute to the RPSL<br>
inetnum/inetnum6 class dictionary, which as value contains a URL with<br>
http or https scheme.<br>
<br>
The draft: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ymbk-opsawg-finding-geofeeds" target="_blank">
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ymbk-opsawg-finding-geofeeds</a><br>
<br>
The value of the attribute could be validated using something like<br>
"org.apache.commons.validator.UrlValidator", the attribute would look<br>
like this, only valid in the inetnum/inet6num:<br>
<br>
    "geofeed:   [optional]   [single]     [ ]"<br>
<br>
Example object:<br>
<br>
    inetnum:        192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.255<br>
    netname:        EXAMPLE<br>
    country:        NL<br>
    geofeed:        <a href="https://example.com/geofeed.csv" target="_blank">https://example.com/geofeed.csv</a><br>
    ... snip ...<br>
    source:         RIPE<br>
<br>
What do others think?<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Job<br>
<br>
ps. In IRRd v4.2 support for the 'geofeed:' attribute will be added<br>
<a href="https://github.com/irrdnet/irrd/issues/396" target="_blank">https://github.com/irrdnet/irrd/issues/396</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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