Dear collegues, As discussed and agreed to in the mailing lists, we will be converting unambiguous named references in the admin-c and tech-c fields of as-macro, autnum, community, dom-prefix, inet-rtr, mntner and role objects to NIC handle references, on 1 July, 1999, at 17:00, GMT. The process will take around half an hour, and during the process the updates will be queued. Whois queries will not be affected. The maintainers of the affected objects will get notifications about the changes. The conversion on domain and inetnum objects will be done at a later date, due to substantial time they require for this process. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Regards, Engin Gunduz RIPE NCC DB Group