Daniel,

does this mean that after May 8th European operators will have to submit route objects to the RADB even though they have registered route objects in the RIPE RR? If yes, how do we proceed to eliminate the need for this double registration requirement?

Let me give you the ANS perspective on this one: We hope to take RIPE RR registrations as authoritative for European operators, eliminating need for redundant registrations. This just seems to make sense, assuming that the RIPE registry is at least as valid a place from which to pull European route objects as the RADB. Almost certainly we will not be able to flash cut this on 5/8 (one thing at a time), but it's definitely part of the process. We'll do this by sucking routes out of radb.ra.net, but that should include the "latest" info mirrored with source:RIPE as I understand it. Steve