Re-homing of RAToolSet to RIPE NCC

It has never been the intention to turn the RAtoolset into a RIPE 
centric toolset. If it were we could have developed our own. The ISI 
people approached us with a request to consider supporting it after 
NSF funding for the RA project  finished and the developers moved to 
other tasks.

I am generally not very fond of "committees" for design purposes. I 
would rather keep channels open at NANOG, ARIN, APNIC, APOPS, RIPE, 
etc and try to address everyone's requests.

Also, last but not least, the fact that we are making a commitment to 
devote resources to the maintenance and further development of the 
RAToolset does not mean we won't incorporate other people's 
development efforts into the toolset. We will just make sure we have 
the resources to do it.

Joao

At 03:59 -0400 4/10/01, Ray Plzak wrote:
>Assuming that RIPE is going to be the agent for a global set of tools, what
>are the plans for a configuration control board.  One would assume that such
>a body would be formed so that the tool set does not become RIPE centric but
>takes on the broader global view of all users and is sensitive to their
>needs.
>
>Ray

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