IRT object

Dear Colleagues,

The irt object has been implemented and we put the new software on our 
test whois server (please see 
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/testdb.html).

We also took liberty to make some modifications to the original proposal 
(http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/db-wg/20010701-20020101/msg00036.html).

Namely:

- an "irt-nfy:" attribute is now optional/multiple/inevrse key in the 
irt object. It specifies an e-mail address used to send notifications 
whenever a reference to the object is added or removed. We thought it 
would be very useful from security prospective.

- a name of an irt object should start with "IRT-" prefix reserved for 
this type of object. This will eliminate possible confusion, such as 
mixing up with mntner.


We have created some object to play with:

irt:          IRT-TEST

inetnum:      172.18.0.0 - 172.25.255.255

So you may try:


$ whois -h test-whois IRT-TEST
$ whois -h test-whois -i mnt-irt IRT-TEST
$ whois -h test-whois -i irt-nfy bitbucket at ripe.net
$ whois -h test-whois 172.18.10.1
$ whois -h test-whois -c 172.18.10.1


The irt objects are not created automatically, but are forwarded to RIPE 
Database Administration (ripe-dbm at ripe.net). But this restriction does 
not apply to the TEST database, so you may try to create one yourself.


Have a nice weekend,

Regards,

Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC