Re: Use of advisory attribute

["Thomas C. Knoeller" <]

| I've been looking over the 'advisory' attribute, mostly in preparation
| for the upcoming RIPE-181 to RPSL conversion (RPSL does not have this
| attribute).

Shane,

The advisory attribute is no longer used.  

To my knowledge, it was exclusively used when the NSFnet stopped paying
for ANS's backbone and the policy makers needed a way to transition from
merit's PRDB to merit's RA IRR database.  It stopped being used once
AS690 (ANS) put together it's incredibly complex aut-num.


| 
| The advisory attribute itself suffers from a severe lack of
| documentation.  [...]

Ya.  We got lot's of flames for that.

|                                                         And finally,
| what should the method be during RIPE-181 to RPSL conversion?

For AS690, just drop it.  AS690 no longer exists as a publicly
accessible ASN.  For the others, I would suspect that they are
just gorp that you mentioned. . .

-Tom