fyi: minor updates for database software

Brian,
	a few comments.

Why are you making these changes before we have an RPSL spec. These
are basically breaking RFC1786 in some cases without having anything
else actually defined. 

 Brian Renaud <renaud at merit.edu> writes:
  * 
  * I've installed a version of the database software (still on the 1.0.3
  * base) with the following changes:
  *
...
 
  *      support line continuations with a '\' at the end of the line
  *      (strip out the '\' and do the line joins on input)
  * 
  *      support AS Macro syntax of /^AS\-[A-Z]([_-]*[A-Z0-9]+)*$/
  * 
To quote from RFC1786.

...
Each attribute has the following syntax:


as-macro:
     The name of a macro containing at least two Autonomous Systems
     grouped together for ease of administration.

     Format:
          AS-<string>

          The <string> should be in upper case and not contain any spe-
          cial characters.

     Example:

          as-macro: AS-EBONE

     Status: mandatory, only one line allowed

...
So this breaks this.

  *      support RIPE 181 routing policy expressions with the "OR" keyword
  * 
Uhh.. yeah good catch.

  *      support community list syntax of /^[A-Za-z]([_-]*[A-Za-z0-9]+)*$
  * 
This means I can have a community of AS-MACRO now - something we
wanted to avoid.

		--Tony.





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