[ Apologies for duplicate messages ] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC Software Engineering Group provides an RPSLng prototype whois server on host rpslng.ripe.net, port 53001. RPSLng is an effort to extend the RPSL language, enabling the language to document routing policies for the IPv6 and multicast address families currently used in the Internet. The prototype RPSLng whois server has been updated to implement draft-blunk-rpslng-05.txt the latest Internet Draft of the RPSLng effort: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/internet-drafts/draft-blunk-rpslng-05.txt One discrepancy between the draft and the prototype server is that, the optional list of prefixes between the '{' and '}' in the "mnt-routes:" attributes of AUT-NUM and ROUTE6 objects has not been implemented. This functionality will be added later. The prototype database contains a snapshot of the RIPE Whois Database. It can be updated by sending mails to <rpslng-auto@ripe.net>. Please note, this database is only for test purposes and updates performed on it will NOT be reflected on the production RIPE Whois Database. The prototype RPSLng server was put into production in May 2003. We have refreshed the contents of the prototype database using a recent snapshot from the live RIPE Whois Database. We have kept the ROUTE6 objects, as well as AUT-NUM objects with "mp-*" attributes, while refreshing the contents. Up-to-date details can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/db/rpslng Regards, Shane Kerr Software Engineering Department Manager RIPE NCC