September 2002 - db-wg - mailman.ripe.net

<auto-dbm@ripe.net> is slow this afternoon.
by RIPE Database Administration 17 May '18

17 May '18

Dear Colleagues, Because of a very high level of use this afternoon, the response time of <auto-dbm(a)ripe.net> is longer than normal. I have made contact with those who are responsible and I expect the situation to improve as the machine works through the queue. Please be patient. Obviously we at the RIPE NCC Database Group are continuously working to make the performance of the database as good as possible. However, we cannot make improvements in zero time. We thank you for your co-operation up to now and we ask for your continued co-operation so that everyone receives the best possible service. If you have anymore questions, please contact <ripe-dbm(a)ripe.net>. Regards, Ambrose Magee ____________________________ RIPE Database Administration.

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[Internet-Drafts@ietf.org: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-00.txt]
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 13 Sep '02

13 Sep '02

Following the short discussion this morning at RIPE-43, here is a I-DI believe we should discuss here. whois sucks :-) ----- Forwarded message from Internet-Drafts(a)ietf.org ----- Subject: [Ietf-not43] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-00.txt From: Internet-Drafts(a)ietf.org Reply-To: Internet-Drafts(a)ietf.org To: IETF-Announce: ;IETF-Announce:; Cc: ietf-not43(a)lists.verisignlabs.com Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:45:33 -0400 X-BeenThere: ietf-not43(a)lists.verisignlabs.com A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Cross Registry Information Service Protocol Working Group of the IETF. Title : IRIS Address Registry Schema Author(s) : A. Newton Filename : draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-00.txt Pages : 18 Date : 15-Aug-02 This document describes an IRIS registry id and schema for registered Internet address information. The schema extends the necessary query and result operations of IRIS (draft-ietf-crisp-iris-core-00.txt) to provide the functional information service needs for syntaxes and results used by Internet address registries. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-00.txt To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-00.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv(a)ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-crisp-iris-areg-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Prototype of Whois Server with Revised Parser
by RIPE Database Administration 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Colleagues, The Whois query parser for the RIPE Database Server has been revised to be more consistent and helpful to users. In the new version, inconsistent queries and invalid input will be detected and reported to the user, rather than silently processed. Users may see different results for inproperly formatted queries; some may result in an error message, and some will be processed with an appropriate warning. The idea is to be as clear as possible, but some users may be confused, and tools may break. We would like your feedback on the changes, so that we can modify the behaviour to provide the clearest and most useful results. Accordingly, we are now running a prototype of the Whois server with the revised parser. It is a mirror of the production server, meaning that it will provide the same results for queries, except where the parser is different. Usage: To access this server, use "whois-beta.ripe.net" as your Whois server. Except as noted on the web page below, queries behave identically to the production server. For full details, please see: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/whois-prototype-2002.html Feedback: Please send any comments or suggestions to <dbrip(a)ripe.net>, or discuss on the Database Working Group mailing list: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/db/index.html We look forward to your feedback. -- Shane Kerr Database Group RIPE NCC

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webupdates & syncupdates
by Can Bican 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Dear Colleagues, Prototypes for Web Updates and Synchronous Updates have been released, with the announcement available on http://www.ripe.net/db/syncupdates/ . - Web Updates Implementation of "Web Based Updates" intends to help the users of the RIPE Database by providing a convenient and simple to use graphical user interface for updating the database. The graphical user interface combines the help, update and acknowledgement facilities of the database to one graphical user interface. The first prototype is released, available from the url below. Prototype has the minimum functionality to send the updates. Operations currently supported are: * Add/delete/edit objects, * Add/delete/change the order of attributes, * Provide password based authentication, * Help text for each attribute, * Ability to prohibit updates on existing objects, forcing creation. The application can be used from the following URL: http://webupdates-test.ripe.net/ There is also an SSL interface available: https://webupdates-test.ripe.net/ Since this application is currently being developed, your feedback is most important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions, questions and criticisms to dbtools(a)ripe.net. - Synchronous Updates The aim of "Synchronous Updates" is to support updates to the RIPE Database in interactive, or synchronous mode, where the submission and the acknowledgement are communicated synchronously, unlike conventional mail. It also provides a backend for applications like "Web Based Updates". Main goals in developing this tool are: * Compatible with mail updates, having the same functionality, * Easy to program interfaces, * Scalable and controllable, responsive to overuse and/or misuse of resources, For updating the database using the prototype of syncupdates, either use this page: http://www.ripe.net/db/syncupdates/syncupdate-minimal.html or use the perl script, available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/syncupdates/sup_cli.pl which accepts the update from standard input. Please feel free to send your comments, suggestions, questions and criticisms to dbtools(a)ripe.net. Best Regards, -- Can Bican

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New Document available: RIPE-253
by RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-253 Title: RIPE Database User Manual: Getting Started Author: Andrei Robachevsky, Shane Kerr, Vesna Manojlovic Samantha Dickinson Date: 9 September 2002 Format: PS=78771 TXT= Available soon Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- This document is intended for users who have no previous experience with the RIPE Database. It is a hands-on tutorial that walks the reader through the basic concepts and techniques that are needed to use the RIPE Database using example and exercises. This document is not intended to be a complete reference. Full information on the RIPE Database may be found in the RIPE Database Reference Manual at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/databaseref-manual.html Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. the "RIPE Database User Manual: Getting Started" is available at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/db-start.html The RIPE document store is also available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-253.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-253.txt plain text version Please note that the .txt version will be available as soon as possible. Kind Regards, Jeroen Bet RIPE NCC Webmaster

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