[DBWG] Possible solutions to the changed attribute issue

[Frank Habicht]

Hi,

On 10/09/2020 23:46, Nishal Goburdhan wrote:

> On 10 Sep 2020, at 20:26, Cedrick Adrien Mbeyet wrote:

> 

> 

>> A project to revamp of MyAfrinic has kicked off already and development

>> is ongoing.

> 

> hi cedrick,

> 

> thank you for the note about the security status of my.afrinic, but

> that’s not really a matter for discussion here.  the real issue, is that

> there was a suggestion from your staff, to move from something that is

> considered secure (pgp) to something *less* secure (the my.afrinic

> portal)  and, whilst we appreciate your efforts to secure your portal,

> that does not make it better than me, having my own pgp key, and

> performing updates via pgp-signed mail.

> 

> unless there’s a common feeling otherwise?

> 

> please continue your work;  but for dbwg purposes, there are at least

> three, demonstrably human participants of this list and users of your

> database, that have said a loud “NO” to removing updates via signed mail.


I just want to confirm what Nishal has said.

It was mentioned [1] by staff that "${portal}" could become the only
supported way of whois updates.

There have been multiple postings with strong reasons against this
intention to remove existing ways of updating Whois.

In my personal capacity I would also have added my voice, but as chair
had to wait for others to voice opinions first.

Unless there is anything else, in one weeks time, I believe we can put
this to rest (in a week), with the understanding that a restriction of
the ways to update Whois should not be done until another more detailed
and justified, and then agreed upon, proposal passes.

Nishal wrote:

> unless there’s a common feeling otherwise?


there is not.


Regards,
Frank
co-chair

PS: maybe to be even more clear:
revamping MyAfrinic is fine.
But not for the reason of removing other means of whois updates.

[1]
24/08/2020, 12:05 UTC+3
"1. Eliminate other avenues of creating and updating WHOIS objects such
as webupdate and auto-dbm and leave only myafrinic."