[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
>>
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>> Hendrik Visage
>>
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