In message <3F6E3574.1040300@mrp.net>, Mark Prior writes:
Personally I would prefer it if RPSLng was a super set of RPSL and from my point of view RPSLng policy = RPSL policy would be really nice. I still fail to see why we need most of the mp-* stuff anyway.
Mark.
Mark, How is RPSLng not a superset of RPSL? Nothing has been removed from RPSL. The issue is just how do you make transition easiest, supporting older RPSL only clients. If you just extend import rather than rename it mp-import and extend it, then old RPSL only clients will consider you autnum broken. If you include mp-import but forget to reflect you IPv4 policy in plain import then the old RPSL client will pick up a subset of you policy. In either case, extending import, or adding mp-import and putting the extensions there, it would make for a smoother transition if the server code could recognize old clients and feed them with objects translated into plain RPSL. Curtis