
[Apologies for duplicates] Dear Colleagues, We regret to inform you that due to European data protection laws, the RIPE NCC is now unable to provide the RIPE Database Bulk Access service. The Bulk Access service will be discontinued on 6 July 2010 and all contracts relating to it will be cancelled as of this date. All services provided by the RIPE NCC must abide by the restrictions imposed by data protection regulation. Due to the level of access to personal data in the RIPE Database provided to Bulk Access service users, we are no longer able to legally offer this service. For more information about personal data in the RIPE Database, please seethe RIPE Data Protection Task Force homepage at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/tf/dp/index.html The Near Real Time Mirroring (NRTM) service offers similar functionality to the Bulk Access service but does not contain personal data. For more information about this and instructions on how to sign up for this service, please see: http://www.ripe.net/db/support/about-nrtm.html If you have any questions about the RIPE Database, the Bulk Access service or the NRTM service, please contact ripe-dbm@ripe.net. Kind regards, Paul Palse -- Database Group Manager at RIPE NCC http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/contact.html