[DBWG] ORG-TYPE definitions

[Frank Habicht]

Hi Madhvi,

thanks for your email.
it corrects my perception. [and i am happy that i brought it up]

I guess that we can expect both items to be done within the coming week.

Regards,
Frank

On 04/10/2020 20:45, Madhvi Gokool wrote:

> Hello Frank

> 

> The commitment was for staff to provide a definition of the org-types to

> the database working group and I further added that the definitions

> should then be made available when we perform a whois query. This way,

> they shall be publicly available to any person wanting to know what each

> org type means .

> 

> Logically it shall happen as follows :-

> 

> 1. The org-types  definition will be provided to the database working group

> 

> 2. The whois database will be updated with the definitions so that they

> are then visible through the query whois -v organisation

> 

> Regards

> 

> Madhvi

> 

> On 04/10/2020 9:10 PM, Frank Habicht wrote:

>> 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 Also: if it involves the manual (which was noted to have outdated info),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'

>>

>>

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