Tools BoF

BoF Report - RIPE 37

Chair: Maldwyn Morris
Scribe: Guy Vegoda - Ta!
Time: 16:00 13/9/2000
Attendees: 106

Summary:
Scope: Tools for Members' use specifically related to RIPE Local IR activities

1. Existing Tools

• Asused* - allocation and assignment usage and consistency
• Web141/ip-req-robot* - IP Address request check
• ASinuse - AS number lookup
• Web147 - AS Number request check
• Stt* - mail reply template tool

2. Future Tools

• Secure Web Page: reg info edit, 141/147 submit, gandalf
• PGP for mails to & from hostmaster@ripe.net
• as-req-robot
• public version of RIPE NCC ticketing system

Proposed:

• Allocation & Assignment Management Tool?
• Easier Member access to RIPE Databases?
• Scripts to work with proprietary Address Management Systems?

3. Member Tools

Holger Münzof of UUNET gave a talk on RICE, their ASNumber/ASMacro Management Tool

4. Whither the BOF?

• Discuss requirements on mailing list: lir-wg@ripe.net
• Tools BOFs if a lot to discuss, otherwise RIPE NCC to report in LIR working group.

BOF Report - RIPE 38

Tool BoF
Chair: Maldwyn Morris
Attendees: 92

1. Existing tools

• Net: :IP : Perl Library for the Manipulation of IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses (Manuel Valente, RIPE NCC).
  See: Net: : IP on CPAN.
  A suggestion for added functionality was gratefully accepted, more comments are welcome at: swcontact@localhost
  
  
• AS Request Checking and the Hostmaster Mail Robot (Timur Bakeyev, RIPE NCC)
• Asused Allocation Checks (Timur Bakeyev, RIPE NCC)

2. Tools in development

• Robo-Bijal (Guy Vegoda, Level 3) Nice demonstration and explanation of a useful tool for IP address Management.
• RIPE DB version 3.0 and RPSL Migration (Andrei Robachevski, RIPE NCC)
• Secure Web pages (Maldwyn Morris, RIPE NCC) - Demonstration of plans for RIPE NCC Member-only web pages.

3. Proposal for tools

Chair will bring up co-operative development of IP Address and Request Management Tool for LIRs in a mail on the lir-wg mailing list.

4. Survey

• Chair asked the attendees what they wanted from the BOF
• Most seemed fairly happy with current level of presentations.
• Members are encouraged to try the tools, especially asused and stt.
• They should all work on most modern, Unix-like OSes- bugs welcome at: swcontact@localhost

There were no questions.
Rob suggested creating a new working group: Tools-WG.