APNIC DB SIG Report Taipei 2003 Xing Li 2003-02-28

APNIC DB SIG ReportTaipei 2003

Xing Li2003-02-28

Goal

This SIG examines developments in the operation of APNIC's Whois database and discuss related policy issues affecting registration practices and database security.

The meeting

There are about 36 attendees

Introduce of the Vice Chairman Hakikur

Rahman (he could not participate in this

time)

Presentations

Requirements for running a local 'Whois' Speaker:George Michaelson, APNIC

Proposal for data clean up in APNIC Whois Speaker:Sanjaya, APNIC

Operational Status report on whois DB Speaker: Sanjaya, APNIC

RIPE DB Developments Speaker: Olaf Kolkman, RIPE NCC

Rwhois technical Overview/ ARIN design initiative Speaker:Tim Christensen, ARIN

Proposal 1

Clarify operational and policy issues to permit more widespread use of mirrored WHOIS services

Enhance member servicesImprove information held on behalf

of wider Internet communityWill be discuss in the mailing-list

Presentations






Proposal 2

1. Remove whois records that are not related to actual resource information

2. Remove resources information that are not in APNIC range

3. Modify records that are not RPSL compliant Notes:

Removals/modification will be made after 60 days notice to the record holders

Activities reported regularly in DB-SIG and AMM Agree, consensus: 12 vs 0

Presentations






Discussions

Database usage analysis

Network abuse and spam

RIR vs. IETF process

……

Open action items

db14-001 Delete MAIL-FROM done

db14-002 Create sample hierarchical inetnum objects with associated

maintainer objects Consensus Agreed to process

db14-003 Mandatory maintainers for inetnum objects

db14-004 Create a new AS object

Documents

APNIC DB SIG Report Taipei 2003 Xing Li 2003-02-28