<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp339f30abyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div> <div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Lutz</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Is your problem with the RPSL syntax in an AUT-NUM you try to create in the RIPE Database, or with some RPSL parser you are using on data you have extracted from the RIPE Database?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Nick, "<span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">You may want to think twice about whether it's worth investing time and </span><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">effort in rpsl in 2020". Given that the discussion you tried to get going recently on the future of RPSL hardly got off the ground, then unless someone already has advanced plans on a replacement for RPSL I don't see it going away anytime soon.</font></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">cheers</font></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">denis</font></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">co-chair DB-WG</font></font></div></div><div><br></div> </div><div id="ydpaf0a63eyahoo_quoted_3811612654" class="ydpaf0a63eyahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"> <div> On Thursday, 2 July 2020, 17:12:29 CEST, Nick Hilliard via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote: </div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><div dir="ltr"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Lutz Donnerhacke via db-wg wrote on 02/07/2020 15:47:</font></font><div class="ydpaf0a63eyqt6885153411" id="ydpaf0a63eyqtfd76387"><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">> I try to be a bit more expressive in the aut-num of ASN199284, but </font></font><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">> fail to get accepted at least the valid parts by the RPSL parser.</font></font></div><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">rpsl(ng) hasn't seen any significant development work since the 1990s, </font></font><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">and the only real update since then was to support ipv6 (rfc4012 in </font></font><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">2005). The only functional parser out there, irrtoolset, is crippled </font></font><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">with functional shortcomings and is basically abandonware.</font></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">You may want to think twice about whether it's worth investing time and </font></font><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">effort in rpsl in 2020.</font></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Nick</font></font><div class="ydpaf0a63eyqt6885153411" id="ydpaf0a63eyqtfd78161"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div> </div> </div></body></html>