[db-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RPSLng database deployment?

On 9 Oct, 2004, at 23:14, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 10:54:05PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>>> I've never seen anyone actually using RtConfig output for anything
>>> else then destilling prefix/aspath lists from them in order to use
>>> those in own generator tools. Given my own very basic and short
>>> playing with RtConfig, I can somewhat understand why.
>>
>> It would make countless lives much easier if it were possible to 
>> submit
>> a query to the db that gives back the desired output rather than 
>> having
>> to use these very complex tools.
>
> Agreed, IRRd actually offers that.
>

Hmm, that's interesting. Last time I checked the RIPE server provided 
the same features (except for route-set expansion, mainly due to the 
fact that when rpsl was defined it was not entirely clear how the 
expansion was to be performed). To the best of my recollection no one 
has ever manifested interest in having the RIPE server do that.

Joao