[DBWG] Proposal request: Geofeed attribute - RFC 9632 (old RFC9092)

[Frank Habicht]

Hi all,

We had the below proposal on this list, in this Working Group.

2 weeks for any additional comments have passed.

I believe the that both the problem and the proposal are well stated and 
I had indicated this 2 weeks ago and there was no disagreement.

<nohat> I would like to add my own personal support for the proposal
</nohat>


AfriNIC staff, please take this as a work item and advise how this can 
be implemented, incl impact assessment.

Thanks,
Frank



On 10/28/2025 7:46 AM, Frank Habicht wrote:
> Hi Henrik, everyone,
> 
> Welcome to the group.
> 
> I suggest we allow for 2 weeks (until Nov 11 inclusive) for everyone to 
> share their opinions/contributions here.
> 
> In the meantime AfriNIC staff can prepare their impact assessment with 
> all pros/cons for this and then share *after* above date.
> 
> <nohat>
> I think it's a good proposal and the right way forward. All of it. 
> Because it's also very well stated by Henrik.
> 
> Btw: personally I have created inetnum objects for subnets of the 
> allocation and put the geofeed through the remarks attribute there.
> 
> I think that's a work-around and the proposed solution by Henrik is 
> allowing the real straight-forward solution.
> </nohat>
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Frank
> co-chair
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/27/2025 4:08 PM, Hendrik Visage wrote:
>>
>> Good day,
>>
>>
>> So as a new member I’ll start to mention some pain points that hit me 
>> with the AfriNIC WHOIS database, and lets start with the Geofeed 
>> attribute:
>>
>> Afrinic whois doesn’t currently support that tag. The original RFC9092 
>> was published July 2021, while the new RFC9632 was published in Aug 2024.
>>
>> Current Afrinic support is only the Remarks attribute, but that 
>> attribute, at least for PI resources, isn’t writeable/updatable by the 
>> resouce owner, and requires hostmaster at afrinic to assist.
>>
>> Proposal: AfriNIC WHOIS db to include the Geofeed attribute, and allow 
>> the resource owners to add and update it themselves.
>>
>> Hendrik Visage
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Hendrik Visage
>>
>> hvisage at hevis.co.za
>>
>>
>> HeViS.Co Systems Pty Ltd
>>
>> https://www.envisage.co.za
>>
>>
>>
>>
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