just an FYI - don't panic

All,

This is just an FYI.  I haven't been real enthusiastic about the idea
of submiting these aut-num objects to the RADB.  This was submitted to
a test database at Merit.  I will assert that this aut-num _cannot_ be
submitted by e-mail due to a minor RIPE-181 design oversight.

Lines of the following form cannot be broken up using the currently
defined RIPE line continuation:

  as-in:  from ASxxx 1 accept ASyyy AND NOT { ..very long list.. }

To break up this line using the RIPE line continuation would change
it's meaning.  In some cases, ASyyy expands to a few thousand networks
and the list of exceptions is tens of networks, though in a few cases
the list of exceptions is over a hundred.

Even if the list of exceptions is only a few tens of networks, the
lines very quickly become too long for some mail processing software
which can then mangle the lines in unpredictable ways.

The solution to this general problem is for RIPE-181 (and related
documents to support a general line continuation using the backslash
character at the end of the line to indiacte that there is more on the
next line.

Curtis

PS- The solution to this particular problem has been for ANS to load
this in a local database (using dbupdate, so using full sytax
checking) for testing rather than try to send it in the mail.

PPS- Yes, I will be forwarding patches to fix this so things like this
can be e-mailed in the future.  Later.


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  Date:    Thu, 11 May 1995 09:51:20 -0400
  From:    NSF Routing Arbiter Database Management <rradmin at radb.ra.net>
  To:      RADB object Submitter <rtmonger at ans.net>
  Subject: Re: 690 aut-num

  Your e-mail:
  
  >   From:    RADB object Submitter <rtmonger at ans.net>
  >   Subject: 690 aut-num
  >   Date:    Thu, 11 May 1995 09:45:52 -0400
  >   Msg-Id:  <199505111346.AA06021 at interlock.ans.net>
  
  has been processed by the automatic update procedure at the NSF Routing Arbiter.
  Diagnostic output follows:
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Update FAILED: [aut-num] AS690
  
  aut-num:     AS690
  descr:       ANSNET

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