MCI RR data available daily from ftp.mci.net

Tony,

  Looks like our messages crossed in the mail.  Here's for the CC'd folks:

> Tony,
> 
>   Thanks for announcing the mci.db !
> 
>   I'm officially on vacation tomorrow until Jan 3, though I'll be
> checking in.
> 
> > I'll talk to you off-line about started the NACR going away process.
> 
> What we absolutely need, of course, is the advisory line with the
> as:metric lists.  (Until, I suppose, some future time when all of
> MCI's customers policies can be represented to AS690 using strict
> RIPE-181.  But not this month, please).
> 
> What would also help (or make possible) a sensible solution would be
> for you to include some text at the top of mci.db (and the split
> route file) giving the NSF AUP certification:  "We hereby swear that
> any route below that is marked with community COMM_NSFNET abides
> by..."
> 
> Beyond that, all of the variations I can think of take all the work
> off you and put it on us.  You allow us to pick up mci.db.  Probably
> you supply us with an algorithm based on the change date:  e.g. 
> "please look at all the entries with changed dates since the last
> config run, and replace your PRDB entries with the information shown
> from that route object".  The rest is our problem.  We have all ready
> taken steps so that you do not have to supply net country codes or
> org addresses, which were real hang-ups before.
> 
> Sound good?

If you can get the above things done, we could try this out the first 
week of January.

--Dale

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> From tony at mci.net Thu Dec 22 15:56:28 1994
> 	id AA10720 (5.65a/NCC-2.16); Thu, 22 Dec 1994 21:56:22 +0100
> To: "Dale S. Johnson" <dsj at merit.edu>
> Cc: rr-impl at ripe.net, enke at mci.net, jstewart at mci.net, roy at mci.net,
>         waters at mci.net
> Subject: Re: MCI RR data available daily from ftp.mci.net 
> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Dec 1994 15:54:47 EST.
>              <199412222054.PAA18782 at home.merit.edu> 
> From: Tony Bates <Tony.Bates at mci.net>
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 15:55:42 -0500
> Sender: tony at mci.net
> 
> Dale,
> 	how soon before we can drop nacrs ?
> 
> 		==Tony.
> 
>  "Dale S. Johnson" <dsj at merit.edu> writes:
>   * Ok;  The Routing Arbiter's pre-production database server is now serving
>   * up the following databases:
>   * 
>   * 	RADB (formerly "MERITRR")
>   * 	RIPE
>   * 	CANET
>   * 	MCI
>   * 	PRDB.db
>   * 
>   * The whois server can be found on _radb.ra.net (note the underscore).
>   * Just after new year we will make this the official radb.ra.net .
>   * 
>   * --Dale
>   * 
>   * 
>   * > From tony at mci.net Thu Dec 22 11:59:20 1994
>   * > To: rr-impl at ripe.net
>   * > Subject: MCI RR data available daily from ftp.mci.net
>   * > Cc: enke at mci.net, jstewart at mci.net, roy at mci.net, waters at mci.net
>   * > From: Tony Bates <Tony.Bates at mci.net>
>   * > 
>   * > 
>   * > Please note:
>   * > 
>   * > 	the mci RR is now available rom ftp.mci.net as follows
>   * > 
>   * > ftp://ftp.mci.net/pub/rr/mci.db.gz
>   * > 
>   * > This job runs as part of the clean process. It should be available
>   * > after 4am EST each day.
>   * > 
>   * > It is also available in slpit forms as well.
>   * > 
>   * > The uncompressed version is currently about 1.3 Meg.
>   * > 
>   * > Dale, 
>   * > 	I'll talk to you off-line about started the NACR going away
>   * > process.
>   * > 
>   * > 		--Tony.
>   * > 
> 



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