just an FYI - don't panic

Just a small note on this. From my persective the RIPE folks should
certainly be the keepers of the code. As shown, some of the requests
are due to either not enough involvmenet in the RIPE-181 process
(understandable but suggests more reading of that pesky paper ;-)) and
also perhaps the fact that the documentation needs to be improved
(inet-rtr router issue highlights this exaclty - this was coded in
before we got agreement on the doc and then turned on the next day). As to the
issue of divergence I do not think this is as difficult an issue as
people are making it. I have a number of small things I've added (some
of which I will be feeding back at some point) locally but by keeping a
seperate copy of RIPE based specific module it is easy to patch things in. 

I do feel we may need to be a little more open to change but it is
always a trade off of local over global need. If it is truly a global
thing then it needs consensus amoung the community and this always
takes time.

As to a sidebar conversation I'll have to pass as I will not be at
NANOG so I guess this is my input.

		--Tony.

 "Brian D. Renaud" <renaud at merit.edu> writes:
  * 
  * I think we should try to get together at NANOG to decide what we're
  * going to do to avoid source code divergence.  Perhaps as a sidebar
  * conversation at dinner...
  * 
  * -Brian
  * 
  * > From: Steve Heimlich <heimlich at ans.net>
  * > Subject: Re: just an FYI - don't panic 
  * > Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:20:44 -0400
  * > 
  * > Dale,
  * > 
  * > Who will act as coordinator to get this stuff distributed?  I assume
  * > that the RA in the U.S. can take the lead in this role if we were to
  * > provide source.  
  * > 
  * > Thanks,
  * > Steve



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