Dear Colleagues Apologies for any duplicate mails On Wednesday, 29 December 2004, we will perform maintenance on the RIPE Whois Database. After this, the RIPE Whois Database will support RPSLng. You can find more information about this at: http://www.ripe.net/db/news/rpslng-211204.html We plan to start the maintenance at 15:00 Amsterdam time (14:00 UTC). It will take around four hours. During this time, there will be no interruption to Whois queries, however: - You will not be able to make any updates to the Whois Database using either webupdates or the LIR Portal, - We will process any e-mail updates, sent to auto-dbm@ripe.net, after we complete the maintenance work. We apologise for any inconvenience this work might cause. Best regards Engin Gunduz RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department