Re: RPSLng in the RIPE Whois Database

[Engin Gunduz <]

Hi Bernhard,

On 2004-12-15 19:31:22 +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Beginning Wednesday 29 December 2004, the RIPE Database will support
> > RPSLng.
> 
> This is great, I really appreciate that.
> 
> Now, any comments about registering route6-objects for 6to4 prefix
> (2002::/16)? I would suggest a solution like it is already done for the
> IPv4 part (192.88.99.0/24), perhaps even use the same maintainer.
> 2002::/16 isn't RFC3068 per se, but since 3068 and the appropriate parts
> in 3056 are strictly tied and 6to4 relays are mostly bidirectional
> (announcing IPv4 and IPv6 prefix) it wouldn't hurt to use RFC3068-MNT
> here, too.
> 
> The initial object would need to be created by RIPE NCC though, due to
> missing mnt-routes in ::0/0.

OK, we will add "mnt-routes: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT" to the 0::/0 inet6num
object during the transition.

Regards,

> 
> Bernhard

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Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department