FYI: David K. will be leaving the RIPE NCC

It goes without saying that all of us at the NCC wish David the very
best for his future.  His new job will give us many opportunities to
keep in touch and work together.  David has done much good work which
has been praised so well by others already very elequently.  I agree
with their praise. 

Until July David is going to continue the good work by implementing and
documenting new features in the database software as listed in
yesterday's message.  We plan to deploy the new whois server at the NCC
early next week and the new update process shortly threreafter.  We will
keep you posted. 

After deployment here we will publish the needed documentation.  We plan
to release this software (2.0) before David leaves and we will circulate
the release notes soon. 

We are already in the process of hiring more technical staff.  Some of
them will take the baton from David so that the evoloution and
maintenance of the database software will continue as smoothly as
possible. 

Daniel