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Ref:           ripe-108
Title:         Support of Guarded fields within the RIPE Database
Author:        Tony Bates
Date:          11 February 1994
Format:        PS=45180  TXT=18019 bytes
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Short content description
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This document describes an overview of the RIPE database  attributes
which  are  guarded, the procedure for updating these guarded attri-
butes and the general use of "guarded" fields within the RIPE  data-
base.


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