Purpose
The purpose of the AFRINIC Database Working Group (DBWG) is to provide a channel for discussion between AFRINIC staff, technical community members, and other stakeholders, regarding the implementation of AFRINIC's WHOIS service. Through this channel, the staff will:
- Announce new developments or updates.
- Engage the community in testing new developments.
- Call for comments or suggestions regarding any technical aspect of the WHOIS.
- Engage the community with regards to the database inconsistencies and how we can work together to have them resolved.
- Call for presentations and researches around the WHOIS and database-related subjects.
- Gather ideas of the community regarding improvements to the current DB-related services.
- Help the community in terms of DB tools or objects migration.
- Update and improve the current documentation and share the business rules.
Rules and guidelines
- The database working group is dedicated to the technical discussion of the WHOIS service and the underlying database.
- Though comments and suggestions are welcome from the community, the final decision on implementation details will be reserved for the staff.
- The database working group members are kindly asked to follow AFRINIC's code of conduct
- Comments or suggestions raised in the database working group will be handled by AFRINIC staff as time permits. Any bugs or operational issues should be reported through other channels.
Chair
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Current Co-Chairs
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Past Co-chairs:
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Mailing list
- The discussions are welcome on the dedicated mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- To subscribe, please follow the instructions at https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg.
- List archive at https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/
DBWG proposals and issue tracker
Check the WHOIS DB changelog for more details on features that have been updated.
| Code | Details | Date Received | Status | Next Step |
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| DBWG-1 | Have a suffix for the maintainer object e.g all maintainer objects should end with -MNT. for easy identification |
2nd Jul 2020 | Deployed in production | |
| DBWG-2 | It was raised on the mailing list that the changed attribute is unreliable | 5th Aug 2020 | Under discussion | Consensus |
| DBWG-3 | Proposal to limit IPv6 RDNS objects to minimum prefix assignment prefix of /48 | 7th Sep 2020 | Under discussion | Consensus |
| BugReport-1 | Child object removal during prefix deletion. Child objects derived from an exact match of the prefix are not being removed | 17th Aug 2020 | Deployed in production | |
| DBWG-6 | Resource holders without email addresses | 6th Sep 2020 | Work in progress. ETA End of Q2 2021 |
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| BugReport-2 | Remove duplicate domain objects ending with a dot | 13th Sep 2020 | Done and deployed in production | |
| DBWG-8 | Complete overhaul of the database manual | 02 Jan 2020 | Work in progress | |
| DBWG-9 | Org-type definitions in organization object template | 4th Oct 2020 | Deployed in production |
