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? On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Gerald Andrew Winters wrote:
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:59:25 -0500 (EST) From: Gerald Andrew Winters <gerald@merit.edu> To: nanog@merit.edu, radb-announce@merit.edu Cc: irrd-team@merit.edu Subject: RPSL announcement text
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 submissions made between now and 1/1/2000 will continue to be visible on whois.radb.net as RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL. Availability of the database in both syntax languages eases the transition to RPSL by allowing users to view RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL.
RIPE-181 queries will be possible until January 1 via whois queries to whois-ripe181.radb.net. However, you will need to *RECONFIGURE* your tools to explicitly query whois-ripe181.radb.net and send RIPE-181 submissions to auto-ripe181.radb.net.
For more information, see:
http://www.merit.edu/radb/announce.html
Please send questions or comments to db-admin@radb.net.
--Gerald Winters Merit IRRd team
Aleksei Roudnev, (+1 415) 585-3489 /San Francisco CA/