Perl

Dave wrote:

>Yup I´m subscribed too :)

Nice to read you.

>Personally I´d be very much in favour of NOT using perl6. Many users at 
>least for the next two years will
>not wish to upgrade just for this tool. Also
>unless we actually NEED perl6 there is little point, or ?
>

I believe Perl 6 will remain a concept not an interpreter
for some time yet, so the point is moot.

>With regards the structure of the tool...
>
>Looks good. A few thoughts of my own...
>
>One of the processes could be seen comprised of the following steps:
>
>1. Address request - from salesman or customer
>2. Approval of request - RIR, LIR, LIR delegate, automatic,
>3. Assignment of addresses - network engineer, mobile phone dept, whatever.
>4. Registration - maybe automatic - local and RIR databases
>5. Configuration - presently outside scope but maybe we should provide 
>hooks.
>
>I would like to see the tool maintain the independence between these steps 
>as
>they could each be carried out by different people.

Good point.

>A text DB would be good, but maybe it requires a little
>structure - for example separate tables for each /16. >This is what we use 
>presently.

I think all four DBs can probably be text-based in a
basic implementation, but it would be nice to have IPMT access them via a 
standard interface like DBI which would
allow easy upgrading to real DBs when required.
Text-based DBs means easy(er) debugging too.

Cheers,

Maldwyn



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