RIS Maintenance Announcement: Thursday 15 February, 2006

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails]

Dear Colleagues,

On Thursday, 15 February 2006, there will be planned maintenance on the
Routing Information Service (RIS). This work will make the RIS database
compatible with 4-byte Autonomous System Numbers.

At 16:45 (UTC), the RIS database will stop inserting data.

Between 17:00 and 18:00 (UTC), the database servers will be stopped
twice for about 15 minutes. All RIS tools, except the Looking Glass, will
be unavailable for up to 20 minutes.

Data collection will continue during the maintenance. When the system
restarts, it may be a few hours until all the stored updates are
inserted.

We thank you for your patience and apologise for any inconvenience this
may cause.

If you have any questions about this work, please e-mail us at:
ris at ripe.net

Regards,

Erik Romijn
Information Services
RIPE NCC