NRTM proposal

"Lu, Ping" wrote:

> me wrote..
> > To be more precise. The data is up to date if the highest
> > serial number
> > on the mirror server matches the highest serial number on the client.
> >
> Exactly. That's why the client can't just ignore any private object. It will
> need to do a dummy update to advance the serial numbers.

Nope. The only thing which the client really needs to know is the highest
serial
number _he_, the client, did process. 

If the highest serial number internal to the datastructure of the client
matches the one of the mirror source is of no concern.

Please keep in mind that i can write a mirror client which doesnt needs to
have the same structure as the ripe-db and therefore may very well miss
a "serial" number like the ripe-server has. 

best regards,

  Arnd
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