Missing mnt-routes in ALLOCATED PA objects

Hi all,

already twice customers of us were not able to update route
records, because RIPE had not included mnt-routes (and mnt-lower)
lines into the inetnum object when allocating a block.
The blocks where we experienced the problem were allocated
in 1996:	inetnum:      193.203.96.0 - 193.203.127.255
and 1999:	inetnum:      212.95.64.0 - 212.95.95.255

This is not an easy to understand problem for small ISPs dealing 
with route objects only now and then. To solve this problem it is 
necessary that LIRs send the inetnum object to be updated to 
hostmaster at ripe.net and RIPE update the object with RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT.
Only then the ISP can update their route records.

Question: 
- Is there a reason for not existing mnt-lower and mnt-routes lines? 
- If not, can RIPE update all affected inetnums in an automatic manner?

This would really help a lot, because manual updates create a lot of 
consultancy need from upstream providers (us in this case) and, I guess,
a considerable workload on the RIPE hostmaster team.

Regards Karsten

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Karsten Koepp
IP Network Planning

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