Some migration issues

[Andrei Robachevsky <]

Dear colleagues,

To facilitate discussion on the list let me bring up some of transition
issues.

A. Issues that affect objects:

1. Route objects. Since the "withdrawn" attribute is not supported in
RPSL, route objects containing this attribute will not be migrated.
Currently there are 9 such objects.
2. Mntner objects. Since "AS-" and "RS-" are reserved prefixes in RPSL,
mntner objects which name starts with one of the reserved prefixes
should be renamed. The proposed automatic procedure is to add "MNT-" to
such names (objects and references). A better way would be if the
'owners' could fix this themselves before the transition.

There are 9 such objects: 

mntner:AS-SIX-MNT
mntner:AS-5532MNTB
mntner:AS-ETEL-MNT
mntner:AS-NETLINK-MNT
mntner:AS-THENET-MNT
mntner:AS-INFORMATIK-MNT
mntner:AS-MNT
mntner:AS-NEW1-MNT
mntner: RS-MNT


B. Issues that affect NRTM clients

1. NRTM server now listens on a separate (non-whoisd) port. For the
prototype server it is currently 4444, but first you need to contact
ripe-dbm to unblock access.
2. Object updates are atomic operations in the new version, that is they
are not split into two: DEL + ADD. This is not a problem with the new
implementation of NRTM client, but could crash clients based on v2.x
Perl software.


Your comments are appreciated.

Regards,

Andrei

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Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC