just an FYI - don't panic

As far as the RIPE database software is concerned, the RIPE NCC has been 
"home of the source" and I propose to keep it so. While we are not as
lavishly endowed with resources ;-) as the RA is, we do have enough 
to do this task. If anyone has bug fixes or improvements, please send
them to <ripe-dbm at ripe.net> or this list.

Both people maintaining the software, David Kessens and myself, will be
at NANOG.

As to the \ continuations, we will include them in the current release.

As to PGP, a major design issue needs to be solved first: Where to store
the public keys. It seems that the RA team is prepared to maintain the
keys manually and separately from the database proper. Given the immediate
number of updates this may be feasible. In the long run it might be better
to store the keys as part of the maintainer object itself.

Daniel



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