Announcement: new procedure for in-addr.arpa reverse delegations

Dear all,

As of today the RIPE NCC offers an automated method for the submission
of reverse zone delegations in 193.in-addr.arpa and 194.in-addr.arpa.
Your delegation requests and the zone files on all nameservers will
be checked automatically. The diagnostics generated by these checks
will be returned to you automatically too. This will make you aware of
any problems very quickly, so that you can correct them and re-submit
your request.

When the automated procedure does not detect any errors, the request is
forwarded to the inaddr role account person for some additional manual
checks and the processing of the delegation itself. Of course, you will
receive an acknowledgement when this has been done.

To use the new automated procedure send your request in ripe-105 format to:
<auto-inaddr at ripe.net> 

You can use some keywords in the 'Subject:' line of your E-mail to
control the checking process. The use of the LONGACK keyword is very
recommended.

HELP    - will send you a (patched) ripe-105 document
CHANGE  - is needed if you want to change an existing reverse delegation 
LONGACK - will give you the most verbose output as possible

RIPE document ripe-105 requires you to send in a RIPE database 'inetnum'
object with a 'rev-srv' attribute for each nameserver for single/multiple
C's reverse delegation requests and for whole blocks 'domain' objects
with 'nserver' attributes for each nameserver.

I recommend to use the following procedure for doing your request:

 Send an E-mail to <auto-inaddr at ripe.net>

 with LONGACK in the 'Subject:' line

 and an appropriate RIPE database object as described in ripe-105 in the
 body of the message.

We still accept the old method for reverse delegation requests (ripe-105
format request to <inaddr at ripe.net>), however it might take some more
time to process them. After some time, when the software doesn't change
daily anymore, the source code will be published. I am neither a DNS
expert or native English writer ;-) so all your comments are welcome! 
Please send them together with complaints, bug reports or special
requests to <inaddr at ripe.net>.

Kind regards,

David Kessens
RIPE NCC