Hi, Please visit http://www.isi.edu/ra/rps/transition/. This page contains RIPE 181 to RPSL transition strategy and related tools. You can o check out our transition plan as agreed by the registries at the end of last ietf meeting (please disregard the dates, as we are behind) o down load ripe181 to rpsl policy converter or a RIPE database server that can handle rpsl objects o query a mirrored IRR for alredy registered 120,000 objects o query a mirrored IRR in RPSL format, yes we have converted all 120,000 - 15 objects to RPSL. What is up with these 15 objects, ask me! o use a web page based interface to convert RIPE181 policy objects to RPSL using cut and paste, or type in your RPSL object to validate its syntax. Note that syntax checker is still partial, but it can handle the most common cases. Please provide us feedback. The success of RIPE181 to RPSL transition depend on early detection of errors. Cengiz -- Cengiz Alaettinoglu Information Sciences Institute (310) 822-1511 University of Southern California http://www.isi.edu/~cengiz