New Database template questions

[ginny listman]

Dawn

I don't want you to think that we won't be addressing your questions.  I
would like to take the rest of the week to review the minutes of the DBWG
and discuss the issues with my staff.  Expect to see a response sometime
at the beginning of the week.

Ginny

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Dawn Martin wrote:

>   I would like to find out how long it is going to take to
> > generate an Org ID. If it is web-based I would like to see
> > this be nearly instant, so people don't need to wait for
> > email etc. I think email should be sent but if the org ID could
> > be displayed once the user requests one on the web they can
> > then immediately use a text or web based template to request
> > what they are really trying to do.
> >
> >
> > Can I have 500 (or more, ok, well maybe less if we keep cutting
> > people:(
> > as tech contacts on the Org? They will be associated with the org,
> and
> > not each resource right? Also, is there a different contact that
> they
> > can be and they only have permissions set to update reassignments
> and
> > not the reassignments itself.
> >
> > Does this mean that all of WorldCom's install Engineers have an ARIN
> > handle and will this be viewable in ARIN's WHOIS? I'm not sure that
> > I like this. Can't we choose what we want to be shown in WHOIS and
> > what we don't? Truthfully I like how our WHOIS output looks right
> > now. I really don't want my name to be associated with the block
> > in WHOIS, but it would probably be me as the admin on the UU blocks.
> >
> > I'm wondering what the history in the decision making was in making
> > an admin and an org tech and resource techs.
> >
> > Is there any possibility of making the # of templates more
> reasonable?
> > I don't believe that steering towards RIPE's ideas of complex
> > templates
> > (they think that their templates are easy too)is really a good goal.
> >
> >   c. Send a message to all those that have sent hostmaster email
> over
> >       the last year
> >
> > Will this include reassign at arin.net emails as well? Can the message
> > include where people can receive training and have questions
> answered?
> >
> > I think that we (ARIN staff & membership) need to recognize that the
> > folks that attend the ARIN meetings and are active on the mailing
> > lists
> > are not the right audience to address changes that will effect the
> > templates and even the WHOIS output changes that are being proposed.
> >
> > Why can we only have one Admin POC per Org? Can this be a role
> > account?
> > I still don't necessarily want the role account information shown
> > in the WHOIS output.
> >
> > Dawn Martin
> > WorldCom IP Planning Analyst
> > dawn.martin at wcom.com
> > (703)886-4746
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ginny listman [mailto:ginny at arin.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:33 PM
> > To: dawn.martin at wcom.com; marla_azinger at eli.net;
> > stacy_taylor at icgcomm.com; Cathy Clements; Leslie Nobile
> > Subject: Meeting Notes
> >
> >
> > I put together a quick list of what we discussed this AM.
> >
> > Attendees:
> > Marla Azinger, Electric Lightwave
> > Cathy Clements, ARIN
> > Ginny Listman, ARIN
> > Dawn Martin, WorldCom/UUNet
> > Leslie Nobile, ARIN
> > Stacy Taylor, ICG NetAhead, Inc.
> >
> >
> > 1. There needs to be more notification. Possible methods include:
> >    a. Add comments to auto-replies
> >    b. Post a message on the website
> >    c. Send a message to all those that have sent hostmaster email
> over
> >       the last year
> >    d. Include message in Whois
> >
> > 2. Open source the parser code.
> >
> > 3. Provide web-based training prior to the conversion.  The sooner,
> > the
> >    better.
> >
> > 4. Provide "on-the-road" training.  Again, the sooner the better.
> >
> > 5. ARIN strongly encourages different POCs for downstreams.  Should
> we
> >    make it a policy that it be mandatory?
> >
> >
> >
> 
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