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

[Frank Habicht]

Dear AfriNIC team,

Since November this working group has requested staff to take this 
request as a work item.

Please confirm this is an active work item for AfriNIC staff.

Please also update as requested: "how this can be implemented, incl 
impact assessment"

Thank you.
Frank Habicht
DBWG co-chair


On 4/6/2026 6:55 PM, hvisage at hevis.co.za wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> could we get some focus/reports on this?
> 
> On 14 Nov 2025, at 13:25, Frank Habicht wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
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