On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
Hmm, who was this clueless manager who decided to do such things in the 1-th of January. I guess the programmers over the world will be very busy during january looking for the hidden Y2K bugs and fixing it, and why RADB decided to add some more troubles just in this days? Why don't wait until, at least, February? What terrible happen if this changes will be delayed a little?
Maybe that manager didn't believe that there were actually going to be any problems come Y2K, and wanted to make sure he was getting his money's worth from his engineers :)
A reminder for users of the RADB database service: at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT on January 1, 2000, the transition to the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) database will be complete. After January 1, RIPE-181 object submissions will no longer be accepted.
RIPE-181 queries will be possible until January 1 via whois queries to
This doesn't actually make much sense...it says that the -submission- system will be changing, but then that -queries- will be possible until that date. Is it one, the other, or both? -- Patrick Evans - Sysadmin, bran addict and couch potato pre at pre dot org www.pre.org/pre