Migration to RIPE 181

Marten,

>            Perhaps MERIT should inform a wider audience about what is
> expected from them when the NACRs are retired ....

...and perhaps Dale should read all his mail before replying to one
message.  (sigh)  Yes, Marten;  thanks.  You're right.  Please see
previous message.  Busy month...

--Dale


> 
> 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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