Re:

[Ambrose Magee <]

Hi, All !

David Kessens answered this question, but on
another mailing list.  Here is his answer:


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> It would be interesting to know why RIPE changed it from someone at
> RIPE who knows, assuming someone does :-)

It's usually best to ask the guilty party ...

The reason is quite stupid:

It was a bug.

All specs (old and new ones) say that the withdrawn attribute should
only contain the date. So when I discovered this, I switched back to
the correct (and 1.xx) behavior.

To be honest, I would prefer to get rid of the attribute all
together. Hardly anybody is using it.

David K.

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Thank you, David, for explaining this.

Regards,

A. M. R. Magee
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RIPE NCC Database Group

 Gerald Winters gerald@localhost writes:
 * Hello All,
 * 
 *   Does someone from Ripe know the story on the "withdrawn"
 * attribute for route objects?  The value in the v2 ripe
 * shows date plus email address whereas v1 had date only.
 * 
 * 1. What is the rationale for the change?
 * 
 * Thanks,
 * 
 * --jerry
 * 
 * 
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 * Date:    Tue, 19 May 1998 10:02:57 +0930
 * From:    Mark Prior mrp@localhost
 * To:      cengiz@localhost
 * cc:      Gerald Winters gerald@localhost, rps@localhost, merit-ie@localhost,
 * 	 cengiz@localhost
 * Subject: Re: RPSL phase ii software announcement
 * 
 *      Mark Prior on Tue, 19 May 1998 08:57:31 +0930 said:
 *      > Onto something completely different, I notice that the withdrawn
 *      > attribute under RIPE DB v1 was only a date, then RIPE DB v2 made it a
 *      > date and email address and finally RPSL has changed it back to just a
 *      > date again. What's the rationale for the changes? I'm just curious as
 *      > I have to deal with all three formats now :-(
 * 
 * 
 * [snip...]
 * 
 * It would be interesting to know why RIPE changed it from someone at
 * RIPE who knows, assuming someone does :-)
 * 
 * Mark.
 * 
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