Migration to RIPE 181

M.H.Behringer at dante.org.uk (Michael H. Behringer) writes
 * Dale,
 * 
 * Thanks for your reply. I take all your points, but I'm still not sure what
 * Europeans then have to do, once the PRDB is retired, and the RIPE DB is not
 * ready yet to support the advisory attribute for all European nets. Because
 * then you cannot reasonably use the RIPE-DB, as the info there is not
 * complete, but the Europeans can't send in NACRs either, because the PRDB
 * doesn't exist any longer.
 * 
 * My view is that the RIPE-DB *has* to be ready by the time the PRDB retires
 * to not mess things up for Europe. I do not see how we (in Europe) can
 * reasonably work with a unfinished RIPE-DB and no PRDB any more. Do you?

Just to make sure that the RIPE DB as such supports the advisory
attribute, however there are no routes currently that contain this
attribute. Perhaps MERIT should inform a wider audience about what is
expected from them when the NACRs are retired ....

-Marten



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