[DBWG] ORG-TYPE definitions

[Frank Habicht]

Hi all,

so, in order to try to start chop away from all the pending items from
the meeting:

there was a request (from SM, iirc) about the exact definitions what the
different 'org-type:' attribute values are and what the definitions are,
when to use which.

Iirc, Madhvi responded that these can be obtained through whois queries.

I just tried and reached as far as getting an (apparently authoritative)
list of possible values. (below)

I didn't find any definitions as to which value is to be used for which
ORG. Can staff (maybe Madhvi) point us in the right direction?
Also: if it involves the manual (which was noted to have outdated info),
please confirm how current the referenced info/definitions are.

Thanks,
Frank


[frank at fisi ~]$ whoisaf -- -v organisation
[Querying whois.afrinic.net]
[whois.afrinic.net]
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

The organisation class:

      The organisation class provides information identifying
      an organisation such as a company, charity or university,
      that is a holder of a network resource whose data is stored
      in the whois database.
      Organisation objects are not created automatically, but are forwarded
      to AfriNIC Database Administration (afrinic-dbm at rafrinic.net).

organisation:   [mandatory]  [single]     [primary/lookup key]
org-name:       [mandatory]  [single]     [lookup key]
org-type:       [mandatory]  [single]     [ ]
descr:          [optional]   [multiple]   [ ]
country:        [mandatory]  [multiple]   [ ]
remarks:        [optional]   [multiple]   [ ]
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]
ref-nfy:        [optional]   [multiple]   [inverse key]
mnt-ref:        [mandatory]  [multiple]   [inverse key]
notify:         [optional]   [multiple]   [inverse key]
abuse-mailbox:  [optional]   [multiple]   [inverse key]
mnt-by:         [mandatory]  [multiple]   [inverse key]
changed:        [mandatory]  [multiple]   [ ]
source:         [mandatory]  [single]     [ ]

The content of the attributes of the organisation class are defined below:

.....
org-type

   Specifies the type of the organisation. The possible values are 'IANA'
   for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, 'RIR' for Regional Internet
   Registries, 'NIR' for National Internet Registries and 'LIR' for Local
   Internet Registries.

     org-type can have one of these values:

     o 'IANA'
     o 'RIR'
     o 'LIR'
     o 'EU-PI'
     o 'EU-AS'
     o 'MEMBER-ONLY'
     o 'CLOSED'
     o 'INACTIVE-MEMBER'
     o 'NON-REGISTRY'
     o 'OTHER'
     o 'REGISTERED-MEMBER'
     o 'ASSOCIATE-MEMBER'