polling for ripe dbase software changes (fwd)
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Cengiz Alaettinoglu
cengiz at ISI.EDU
Tue Mar 19 19:00:41 CET 1996
Wilfried Woeber (woeber at cc.univie.ac.at) on March 19: > Hi Cengiz, hi David! > > >We would like to hear the opinion (positive or negative) of the RIPE > >database working group on the following proposals *before* changes are > >made to any of the RIPE database implementations. We might want to > >discuss things at the RIPE database working group session at the next > >RIPE meeting in Berlin. > > Well, before I can develop an opinion, I'd be interested in the > motivation and/or expected benefits for the proposed modifications. > > My first *feeling* (note, nothing more than a feeling!) is that things > that belong to an external representation and a user interface should > not be part of the data stored in some database. > Another aspect might be multi-language support. > Of coure, you can translate the syntactic sugar into syntactic salt :-) Currently, the database software is incapable of inserting the sugar words back correctly (when the object has an error). Also, on rpsl, syntactic sugar is actually syntactic delimiters. For example: as-out: to AS1 to AS2 to AS3 announce AS4 if you omit the delimiters: as-out: AS1 AS2 AS3 AS4 which is ambigious. > > BTW, my feeling (again) with regard to the continuation stuff is that > it might make sense to improve things. As it stands right now, it is > not really simple to comprehend (for humans). Not by machines either. I think the line continuation rule is context sensitive, so it can not be parsed by yacc/lex in a straight forward fashion since they parse context-free languages. > > Give me more input, then I can make up my mind. > Best regards, > Wilfried. Cengiz -- Cengiz Alaettinoglu Information Sciences Institute (310) 822-1511 University of Southern California http://www.isi.edu/~cengiz
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