Dear Colleagues, In April 2009, the RIPE NCC announced the timeline for the deprecation of the "rev-srv:" attribute. This announcement can be found online at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2009/msg00032.html At the RIPE 58 Meeting it was agreed that the final stage would be to convert any remaining "rev-srv:" attributes into "remarks:" attributes. This final stage will be implemented by the RIPE NCC on Wednesday, 2 September. There are approximately 100,000 remaining "rev-srv:" attributes. There was some discussion on the RIPE Database Working Group mailing list about whether these attributes should be removed completely instead of converted into remarks as most of the data concerned is likely to be out of date and of little use to anyone. However, as no consensus was reached on this discussion, we will continue with the current conversion to remarks. If you have any general comments or questions about this, please reply to the mailing list. For more specific comments or questions, please contact <ripe-dbm@ripe.net>. Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC