Firstly my sincere apologies for not sorting something out earlier. I've spent most of my time either building networks or looking after my son Lewis, born 26/03/2000 (two weeks late), weighing 5450g or 12lbs 4oz (I like to over engineer)! The hospital didn't include any instructions and despite several detailed searches I have been unable to locate either a RIPE document or RFC detailed care of a newborn baby! Are people still interested in the idea of a users forum as described below and should we try to have a BoF in Budapest or do we still need more of an list based discussion? -----Original Message----- From: Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet [mailto:woeber@cc.univie.ac.at] Sent: 20 January 2000 14:55 To: matthew@planet.net.uk Cc: lir-wg@ripe.net; db-wg@ripe.net; woeber@cc.univie.ac.at Subject: RE: DB consistancy checking tools Matthew, I think this is an interesting proposal:

I have been wondering recently whether a separate group should be set up for the sole purpose of creating tools/advise/methods/hints 'n' tips for LIR's to keep on top of their entries and make management easier. A sort of RIPE users working group not concerned with designing objects for the database but how to put existing objects in it, remove them, manage them, etc.

My 2c

Matthew

To start things moving, could you come up with a coarse draft of ideas and short-term goals to take up? On the more formal side, one of the possible solutions to accomodate that activity might be to create a TaskForce to work on well-defined items during RIPE35 (do you intend to particpate?). This TF might be supported by both LIR and DB, or sponsored by whichever group is seen to be appropriate...