Dear colleagues, It was clear from the discussions at RIPE 64 that we need to change the initial implementation of hiding the hashes for MD5 passwords in MNTNER objects. A suggestion was made to keep the "auth:" attributes in place. If the authentication token is an MD5 password we will remove the hash value. All PGP and X.509 values will remain unchanged. We have already worked on this and a sample MNTNER object would look like the object below. We can deploy this change within the next two weeks. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group $whois -B DEV-ROOT-MNT % The objects are in RPSL format. % % The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf [Open URL] % Information related to 'DEV-ROOT-MNT' mntner: DEV-ROOT-MNT descr: Mntner for DEV-DBM-MNT admin-c: AA1-DEV tech-c: AA2-DEV upd-to: bitbucket@ripe.net mnt-nfy: bitbucket@ripe.net auth: MD5-PW # Filtered auth: PGPKEY-1290F9D2 notify: bitbucket@ripe.net mnt-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT referral-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT remarks: This is an automatically created object. changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20051031 source: DEV # Filtered role: DEV ROLE nic-hdl: AA2-DEV address: Somewhere in nowhere phone: +12 34 567 8900 fax-no: +12 34 567 8900 e-mail: bitbucket@ripe.net abuse-mailbox: bitbucket@ripe.net admin-c: AA1-DEV tech-c: AA2-DEV mnt-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT remarks: This is an automatically created object. changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20051031 source: DEV person: Test Person mnt-by: DEV-ROOT-MNT address: Somewhere in nowhere phone: +12 34 5678900 fax-no: +12 34 5678900 e-mail: bitbucket@ripe.net nic-hdl: AA1-DEV remarks: This is an automatically created object. changed: bitbucket@ripe.net 20051031 source: DEV % This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version 1.9-SNAPSHOT (UNDEFINED)