Dear Colleagues, As part of a project to implement the IRIS protocol (also known as CRISP), the RIPE NCC has set up a prototype IRIS server for public testing. We announced this project during the RIPE 49 Meeting in Manchester: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-db-crisp-upda... We have set up the prototype server as a proxy in front of the RIPE Whois Database. It is based on the FlowerBed server implementation developed by VeriSign Labs: http://iris.verisignlabs.com/blojsom/blog/iris/flowerbed/ The server uses the AREG protocol, you can find more information about this at: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-12.txt We have developed a prototype Perl client that can be used to make queries to AREG servers. This is not a complete client implementation, but we have made it available as we feel it will be useful for those that want to test the service. A web interface for querying the prototype server is available at: http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/test-iris/areg-query.pl You can find more details about this project at: http://www.ripe.net/db/iris-pilot/ Regards, Peter Banik RIPE NCC