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RIPE 54 Minutes (2nd Draft)
by Nigel Titley 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

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RIPE55 DB-WG Draft Agenda V1
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Dear DB-WG folks, Chairpersons, "Meeting"! This is the (very rough) 1st draft of an agenda for the DB-WG at RIPE55 in Amsterdam, October 2007. For time slot allocations please refer to the most up-to-date meeting plan at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/meeting-plan.html Please note that, for our convenience, the time slot map becomes clickable for those sessions which have already submitted a (draft) agenda! Best regards, Wilfried. ________________________________________________________________________ A. Administrative Matters . Welcome . select scribe . finalise agenda . approval of minutes from RIPE 54 . review of action list B. Data Base Update (N.N., RIPE NCC) [~30 min] . operational update . status of CRYPT-PW retirement . removal of orphaned objects (AP54.7) C. follow-Up on . Task-Force on Data Protection Issues [t.b.c.] . Contact Data Quality/Requirements Discussion [t.b.c.] . Resource Certification Project [t.b.c.] D. DB-Software Developmen Activities [~30 min] . restructuring of documentation set . modification proposals (maintainer required, ...) Y. Input from other WGs and TFs Z. AOB ________________________________________________________________________

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Call for agenda items, DB-WG Meeting during RIPE55, Amsterdam, NL
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Dear DB-WG folks, Planning activities for the next RIPE Meeting - RIPE55 in Amsterdam - have already started, thus this call for agenda items. Please submit (to the WG list or to me personally) your item requests or suggest topics for discussion to be included in the draft agenda! I plan to distribute the 1st version of the draft agenda during the first week of September. The DataBase-WG meeting is, as "usual" scheduled for Friday morning, October 26, 2007. The overall RIPE meeting outline is already available at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/meeting-plan.html The list of plenary presentations and the session archive may eventually become available at [- as of late August this page does not exist yet -] http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/presentations/ See you in Amsterdam, Wilfried.

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Proposal to re-structure the RIPE DB Software Documentation
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Following up on discussions in eMail and personally with folks at the NCC who are responsible for maintaining and developing the DB Software, Jos and I would like to come forward with the following proposal, in order to - ease the burden and formal overhead of keeping the DB-SW Documentation up-to-date and in synch with the software development, to - remove the formal RIPE Document status from ripe-401, ripe-252, "ripe-draft" and ripe-402, and to - create a *new* "formal" RIPE Document which acts as an anchor for the (new or updated) set of documentation and as a cross reference to the relevant operational manuals. This new RIPE Document may also include procedure- related topics that might be of special interst regarding implementation of the software at the NCC. The big advantage of this approach is to help with keeping the software and the documentation in synch and up-to-date, even for non-fundamental changes, instead of having formal and stable "baseline documents" and - over time - a set of change notices. Or, worse, outdated documentation :-) I hope this approach does not raise any fundamental concerns with the community and I will put that topic onto the DB-WG's draft agenda for RIPE55, for feedback and an update on where we are. If you do see major problems or have objections, please let us know as soon as possible on the mailing list! Thanks, Wilfried.

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Re: RIPE NCC Scheduled Network Maintenance - Tuesday, 28th August 2007
by James Aldridge 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

--On 23 August 2007 16:59:31 +0200 James Aldridge <james(a)ripe.net> wrote: > The RIPE NCC will perform planned network maintenance work on Tuesday, > 28th August 2007 between 17:00 and 18:00 (UTC). This work has been completed successfully. Regards, James -- James Aldridge, Senior Systems & Network Engineer, RIPE NCC Tel: +31 20 535 4444 / Fax: +31 20 535 4445

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RIPE NCC Scheduled Network Maintenance - Tuesday, 28th August 2007
by James Aldridge 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC will perform planned network maintenance work on Tuesday, 28th August 2007 between 17:00 and 18:00 (UTC). We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to <ops(a)ripe.net>. Regards, James -- James Aldridge, Senior Systems & Network Engineer, RIPE NCC Tel: +31 20 535 4444 / Fax: +31 20 535 4445

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Announcement Routing Registry Training Courses
by RIPE NCC Training 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

------- [Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues The RIPE NCC Training Services Department invites you to register for one of our upcoming Routing Registry Training Courses: Date: Friday 14 September 2007 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Location: Lisbon, Portugal AND Date: Friday 28 September 2007 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Location: Tbilisi, Georgia AND Date: Thursday 8 November 2007 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Location: Southampton, United Kingdom AND Date: Tuesday 13 November 2007 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Location: Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic AND Date: Friday 16 November 2007 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands AND Date: Monday 3 December 2007 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Location: Barcelona, Spain Hosted by: CESCA: http://www.cesca.es/en/on/index.html AND Date: Friday 14 December 2007 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Location: Athens, Greece The main objective of the "Routing Registry Training Course" is to familiarise the LIRs with the features of the Routing Registry, while introducing the relevant tools and services of the RIPE NCC. The course also offers practical exercises. OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED IN THE COURSE: - Routing Registry as a part of the RIPE Whois Database and the Internet Routing Registry (IRR) - Specifying routing policies using (RPSL) Routing Policy Specification Language and the RtConfig tool - IRRToolSet - Routing Information Service (RIS) - Routing Registry Consistency Check Project Please note that this is an advanced course. It will: - NOT teach the basics of routing - NOT teach the basics of RIPE Database operations - NOT describe how to receive Internet resources from the RIPE NCC - NOT describe how to operate a Local Internet Registry (LIR) The target audience of the course are technical staff of LIRs: e.g. network operators, engineers etc. This course is not intended for administrative or management staff (e.g. Hostmasters) . It is assumed that all attendees will be familiar with Border Gateway Protocol routing and with the RIPE Database (i.e. creating/modifying objects). This course is based on interactive exercises in a local network set-up. Please bring your laptops equipped with the following: - A working Ethernet card, - Three meters of Ethernet cable, - A secure connection client, - A web browser. Please be prepared to share your laptop (or at least allow another attendee to "look over your shoulder") if necessary. The course is free of charge. We provide lunch and printed training materials. We do not cover any of your travel expenses or accommodation. We give all of our training courses in English. You can find more information about the course at: http://www.ripe.net/training/rr/ How to register: --------------------- You can register up to two people from your LIR for each course. (If there are places left nearer the time of the course, you can register more people). To register for this course, you can either use the LIR Portal at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/training/course-list.html Or the online registration form on our website: http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/trainingform.pl.cgi If you have any questions, send an e-mail to <training(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Rumy Kanis Training Services Manager RIPE NCC

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IM contact
by Max Tulyev 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hi! I think there is a good idea to add InstantMessenger (ICQ, Jabber, Skype, etc) contact field in person, organization, irt objects. Is there any support? -- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)

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Fwd: Re: [db-wg] IM contact - addition
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

What I forgot to include explicitely, sorry for that... >From: Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet <Woeber(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at> >[...] >> Is there any support? >> >At first glance from this end: NO. *this was worded in my role as a regular netizen, I was NOT wearing my WG-Hat* >[...] Wilfried.

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New RIPE Database server deployed
by Katie Petrusha 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Dear Colleagues, On 1 August 2007, we updated the RIPE Database so that IP queries return IRT objects by default. The following changes were deployed: * The "-c" flag behaviour has become the default for all IP queries. This means that when querying an IP address or range, any query not containing the "-L", "-l", "-M", "-m" or "-x" flags will return the IRT object referenced by the closest less specific inet(6)num (if such a reference exists) by default. * A new "-C" (uppercase) flag has been implemented to provide the old behaviour and ensure backwards compatibility. The behaviour of the "-c" flag itself has not changed, and there were no changes for those queries that include other IP flags ("-L", "-l", "-M", "-m" or "-x"). You may need to adjust the software that you use to query the RIPE Database. The test server test-whois-default-irt.ripe.net has been decommissioned. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. -- Regards, Katie Petrusha Database department RIPE NCC

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