Re: Use of advisory attribute

Shane,

> > So where are you finding all these occurences?
> 
> Well, nobody bothered to tell the world it was deprecated.  As anyone
> with experience with large databases know, any possible gorp quickly
> starts to get added.  :)

Abolutely!

> Some recent examples:
> 
> route:       195.144.128.0/19
> descr:       INS Core/Customer Network
> descr:       ALLOCATED PA Space do not break up
> origin:      AS5378
> advisory:    AS690 1:5378 2:701
> mnt-by:      AS5378-MNT
> changed:     robertwo@localhost 20000731
> source:      RIPE
> ... 

My guess is the current 'advisory:' usage is an artifact.  ie, it 
has always been there so it remains.  I would hope that when
you finally make the conversion the advisory can be eliminated.

--jerry