New Document available: RIPE-252

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Ref:            ripe-252
Title:          RIPE Database Reference Manual
Author:         Joao Luis Silva Damas, Andrei Robachevsky
Date:           15 August 2002
Format:         PS=283252  TXT=134071
Obsoletes:      ripe-251
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This document describes the functionality of version 3.0 of the RIPE
Database that uses the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
to represent all Database objects. It also implements the Routing
Policy System Security (RPSS) to provide authorisation mechanisms
to enable a higher level of security for Internet Routing Registries
(IRR).


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