RIS Maintenance Announcement: Monday 23 October, 2006

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails]

Dear Colleagues,

On Monday, 23 October 2006, there will be planned maintenance on the
Routing Information Service (RIS). This work will make the RIS database
compatible with 4-byte Autonomous System Numbers (ASN).

At 15:45 (UTC), the RIS database will stop inserting data.

Between 16:00 and 16:30 (UTC), the database servers will be stopped
twice for several minutes. All RIS tools, except the Looking Glass, will
be unavailable for up to 20 minutes.

Data collection will continue during the maintenance. When the system
restarts, it may be a few hours until all the stored updates are inserted.

We thank you for your patience and apologise for any inconvenience this
may cause.

If you have any questions about this work, please e-mail us at:
ris-request at ripe.net

Regards,

Erik Romijn
RIS Operations
RIPE NCC