"the" plan

  > Elise Gerich <epg at merit.edu> writes:
  > Daniel,
  > Here is what we'd like to do. 
  > 
  > 1) Announce our registry on Wednesday (this is using the minimum
  > set we agreed on and the extensions from our draft document)
  > 2) we have a translation program which will translate our
  > data to a syntax compatible with RIPE
  > 3) we will store your data in our registry with source RIPE
  > and will give you the compatible file to store in your DB with
  > source Merit

Perfect.

We should find a mechanism for incremental updates too, like just forwarding
the update messages with a special kludge to prevent multiple 
diagnostic replies.

  > 4) Laurent is working on a whois daemon that will search both
  > DBs - thereby negating the need to swap files

Doing a whois daemon that queries multiple places has some design issues
associated with it. At least the following will have to be looked at:

	- how to deal with replication of data (wanted for redundancy)

	- how to combine and use multiple answers

	- how to report only partial availability of servers back to the user

	- Rwhois work by Kosters and Williamson
	
	- other distributed whois work

We have looked into some of this and it is not straightforward. 
It ain't difficult either but we want to consider waht we are 
doing carefully.

  > 5) if you are agreeable, we would like to have both of us run the
  > new whois daemon when it is ready (Laurent says that prtraceroute
  > will work just fine with the new whoisd).

see above.

  > So, does this sound like a go to you all? If so, we will send
  > a message to regional-techs, bgpd, iepg, and any ripe groups
  > that you would like.

Fine. No jont announcement then. I don't mind.

  > Really looking forward to getting this show on the road.  Thanks.

Me too.



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