Hiya, This should be moved away from lir-wg as I suspect this topic is getting spammy and off-topic for most readers (it's nothing to do with setting LIR/RIR policy). Guy, can you set up a small mailing list to deal with IPMT and request subscribers ? With regards the mail thread, I've written quite a few HTML/WWW front ends using CGI.pm/PERL, and they are even modular - subject to the limitations of the perl module/package structure. See http://dcf.djp.net/141/ and http://dcf.djp.net/141/source/ The important thing is that the front end must be simple. We require forms and tables, a little javascript (submit on change and the like) nothing fancy. That is very simple using the CGI.pm perl module and the advantage of using perl throughout is a pretty big one. Cheers Dave On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Niall Richard Murphy wrote: ->On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:06:20PM +0100, Guy Vegoda wrote: -> ->Hey Guy, -> ->> Will the back end DBMS not limit the speed quite a lot, ->> too? -> ->Surely not, especially if a database with a native IP type ->(for example, Postgres) is used, or an equivalent kludge. -> ->> I think you will find the majority of the users being ->> familiar with Perl already. -> ->Yes, as you suggest, some perl is necessary. The question is how much. -> ->> Easier? No. Faster, prettier, better? Yes, you're ->> right on that score. -> ->I have worked on a similar program in the past, and the hardest bit of ->it was getting the front-end code in a manageable and easily extendable/ ->modifyable state. Even with CPAN libraries the code is quite complex. ->PHP has the potential to make that a lot easier. -> ->> I think it would be interesting to take a straw pole ->> on this issue, anyhow. -> ->Well, I think I can be pretty sure that Perl will win, but that doesn't ->mean we couldn't save ourselves a lot of effort by being clever. -> ->Niall -> ->-- ->Enigma Consulting Limited: Security, UNIX and telecommunications consultants. ->Address: Floor 2, 45 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. ->http://www.enigma.ie/ ->