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

Sylvain BAYA baya.sylvain at cmnog.cm
Fri Apr 17 09:56:19 UTC 2026


Le 16/04/2026 à 06:39, Frank Habicht a écrit :
> 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"
>

Hi Frank and all,
May i add my support to this?
No answer since 27/10/2025 14:08

Co-chairs, have you discussed privately with
the relevant staff?

Thanks!

Shalom,
--sb.

>
> 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
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>             Hendrik Visage
>>
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>>
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