[members-discuss] RIPE DB NRTM access.

Hello people (and ticket bots :>),

I  wanted  to  do  some  BGP  filtering automation today, learned some
interesting  things  in  the  process. I decided on setting up a local
mirror of RIPE IRR and was quite puzzled with reasoning behind this:

http://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/nrtm-mirroring

So,  I  can  download  the  whole  database  snapshot  for  free  from
ftp.ripe.net,   wasting   bandwidth   and   other resources, or on the
other  hand  I  can  pay for doing things the right and efficient way,
which in the process is effectively cheaper for all involved parties.

So  the  question  is  -  what gives? :) - why does RIPE insist that I
download >200MB of compressed data instead of catching up probably few
hundred KB of daily changes?

--Pawel.