A reminder for users of the RADB database service: at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT on November 1, 1999, the whois.radb.net and auto-dbm@radb.net services will default to the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) database. This means that whois queries to whois.radb.net after November 1 will return RPSL objects. RIPE-181 queries will still be possible after November 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. RIPE-181 submissions made between 11/1/1999 and 1/1/2000 will be visible on whois.radb.net as RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL. The objects will be converted every five minutes from the whois-ripe181.radb.net database. Availability of the database in both syntax languages will ease the transition to RPSL by allowing users to view RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL. After January 1, 2000, RIPE-181 object submissions will no longer be accepted. Here is the full transition schedule: DATE CHANGE ---- ------ 9/1/1999 RADB begins production RPSL service and enters the final stage of RPSL transition. RPSL queries are available from whois-rpsl.radb.net and submissions may be sent to auto-rpsl@radb.net. RIPE-181 and RPSL databases operate in parallel. whois.radb.net and auto-dbm@radb.net default to RIPE-181. 11/1/1999 Default whois.radb.net and auto-dbm@radb.net addresses change to RPSL database. RIPE-181 queries still possible via whois-ripe181.radb.net and RIPE-181 submissions still possible via email to auto-ripe181@radb.net. auto-ripe181@radb.net submissions will be auto-converted to RPSL and mirrored to the RPSL database every 5 minutes. Therefore, auto-converted RIPE-181 submissions will be visible on whois.radb.net and corresponding RPSL entries may be overwritten. 1/1/2000 RIPE-181 queries and submissions are no longer accepted and the RADB RPSL transition is complete. RADB users can query RPSL objects by issuing the following query: whois -h whois-rpsl.radb.net Objects may be submitted by sending mail to: auto-rpsl@radb.net Users may also use the Web-based GUI interface at: http://www.radb.net/irrj.html RPSL RFCs and Internet-Drafts are available through: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rps-charter.html Comments or questions about the transition are welcome; please send email to db-admin@radb.net. --Gerald Winters Merit IRRd Team