Purpose

The purpose of the 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, 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 database inconsistencies and how we can work together to have them resolved.
• Call for presentations and research around the WHOIS and database-related subjects.
• Gather ideas from the community regarding improvements to the current DB-related services.
• Help the community in terms of DB tools or object 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 is reserved for AFRINIC staff.
• Members are kindly asked to follow AFRINIC’s Code of Conduct.
• Comments or suggestions raised in the working group are handled by AFRINIC staff as time permits. Bugs or operational issues should be reported through the appropriate operational channels.

Co-Chairs

Current co-chairs: Frank Habicht · Ben Maddison
Past co-chairs: Michel Odou · Simon Seruyinda

Meetings

The DBWG meets at AFRINIC public meetings and the Africa Internet Summit, and holds online sessions. Minutes and presented materials are published on GitHub and circulated on the mailing list. See the Meetings & Minutes page.

Mailing list

Discussion takes place on the dedicated mailing list dbwg@afrinic.net.

• Subscribe / manage — lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg
• Archive — lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/

On this site

• Process — how items are raised, discussed, tracked and resolved.
• Work Items — the register of requests, issues and proposals (open & resolved).
• Announcements — releases, notices and FYIs (non-work-item threads).
• Meetings & Minutes — sessions and their minutes.
• Resources & Tools — documentation, tools and service links.