[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC has implemented the "pingable:" and "ping-hdl:" attributes according to the specification in RFC 5943. They can now be used in ROUTE and ROUTE6 objects in the RIPE Database. RFC 5943 describes the syntax and explains how to use them: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5943 The "pingable:" addresses are already active for beacons, anchors and debogon routes announced by the RIPE NCC Routing Information Service (RIS). For an example of how these are announced, see the ROUTE object for 84.205.81.0/24. For more information about RIS beacons and anchors, please see: http://www.ripe.net/data-tools/stats/ris/ris-routing-beacons Regards, Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group