[db-wg] RPSL parser nits

Hi Nick et al,

The ripe whois database (https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois) has an
excellent (=clean, performant and heavily tested) RPSL parser in it for
java. It's minimal work to copy the package, or, since this is BSD licence,
you could release a copy of it for others to use too.

Cheers,
Agoston

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 5:12 PM Nick Hilliard via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>
wrote:

> Lutz Donnerhacke via db-wg wrote on 02/07/2020 15:47:
> > I try to be a bit more expressive in the aut-num of ASN199284, but
> > fail to get accepted at least the valid parts by the RPSL parser.
> rpsl(ng) hasn't seen any significant development work since the 1990s,
> and the only real update since then was to support ipv6 (rfc4012 in
> 2005).  The only functional parser out there, irrtoolset, is crippled
> with functional shortcomings and is basically abandonware.
>
> You may want to think twice about whether it's worth investing time and
> effort in rpsl in 2020.
>
> Nick
>
>
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