Hi Gert, On 17/09/28 14:22 , Gert Doering wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 02:18:12PM +0200, Alun Davies wrote:

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In this RIPE Labs article the RIPE NCC looks into hardware specifications and logistics for the next generation of RIPE Atlas anchors:

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/introducing-ripe-atlas-v3-anchors

Cool.

Do you have current plans for upgrading the v2 hardware?

As was mentioned in the Labs article, we continue to fully support the v2 hardware and there are no plans currently to replace or phase out v2 anchors. In many cases these systems will continue to work fine for a longer time and there are currently no requirements on the side of the Atlas project that would lead us to phasing them out.

I seem to remember that there was an initial "maximum supported lifetime" set for these to avoid the TTM issue ("10+ year old boxes still having to be supported")...

We may come to a point in future, when we are unable to further support the remaining v2 anchors. When that happens we will of course announce that well in advance so that hosts can plan for replacements if they would want to. Hope this clarifies things. Please let me know if you have further questions. Kind regards, Romeo

Gert Doering -- NetMaster