Prototype of RPSLng Whois Server

[ Apologies for duplicate messages ]

Dear Colleagues,

The RIPE NCC Software Engineering Group provides an RPSLng prototype
whois server on host rpslng.ripe.net, port 53001.

RPSLng is an effort to extend the RPSL language, enabling the language
to document routing policies for the IPv6 and multicast address
families currently used in the Internet.

The prototype RPSLng whois server has been updated to implement
draft-blunk-rpslng-05.txt the latest Internet Draft of the RPSLng
effort:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/internet-drafts/draft-blunk-rpslng-05.txt

One discrepancy between the draft and the prototype server is that,
the optional list of prefixes between the '{' and '}' in the
"mnt-routes:" attributes of AUT-NUM and ROUTE6 objects has not been
implemented.  This functionality will be added later.

The prototype database contains a snapshot of the RIPE Whois Database.
It can be updated by sending mails to <rpslng-auto at ripe.net>.  Please
note, this database is only for test purposes and updates performed on
it will NOT be reflected on the production RIPE Whois Database.

The prototype RPSLng server was put into production in May 2003.  We
have refreshed the contents of the prototype database using a recent
snapshot from the live RIPE Whois Database.  We have kept the ROUTE6
objects, as well as AUT-NUM objects with "mp-*" attributes, while
refreshing the contents. 

Up-to-date details can be found at:

http://www.ripe.net/db/rpslng

Regards,

Shane Kerr
Software Engineering Department Manager
RIPE NCC