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

[Frank Habicht]

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,
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> 
> 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:
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> 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.
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> Proposal: AfriNIC WHOIS db to include the Geofeed attribute, and allow the resource owners to add and update it themselves.
> 
> Hendrik Visage
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> Hendrik Visage
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