[ncc-services-wg] ANNOUNCEMENT Maintenance on Whois Server Regarding ORGANISATION Object

Dear Colleagues,

[apologies for duplicate messages]

On Saturday April 17, 2004, the RIPE NCC will perform maintenance
work on the whois server.  The aim of the maintenance is to upgrade 
the whois server to add support for a new object type, the organisation
object.

The maintenance is scheduled to start at 8:00 UTC (10:00 Amsterdam
time) and expected to last around 10 hours.  During the maintenance:

 - e-mail updates to <auto-dbm at ripe.net> will be queued to be
   processed after the maintenance
 - webupdates and syncupdates interfaces will NOT be available
 - whois query service will NOT be interrupted

The maintenance work will consist of:

 - upgrading the whois software
 - creating ORGANISATION objects for LIRs
 - updating LIRs' allocation objects to have "org:" attributes pointing
     to these new ORGANISATION objects.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.  Please contact 
<ripe-dbm at ripe.net> for any questions.

Best regards,
--
Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department