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RIPE Policy Development Process
by Paul Rendek 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce that Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, has published a new RIPE Document, "Policy Development Process in RIPE", (ripe-350). This document formally describes the policy development process. The updated process is operational from today, 1 September 2005. A new RIPE web page describes all the active policy proposals and their status. Each proposal has a page showing its history, status and all supporting documentation. This page can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/index.html A new mailing list <policy-announce(a)ripe.net> has been created for announcing policy proposals and tracking them through the policy development process. This is not a discussion list; discussions will continue to take place on relevant RIPE Working Group lists and at RIPE Meetings. You can subscribe to the policy-announce list at: http://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/policy-announce List archives are available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/policy-announce/ Kind regards Paul Rendek Head of Member Services and Communications RIPE NCC

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call for items for the DB-WG meeting, RIPE51, Amsterdam
by Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

The next RIPE meeting ( http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/ ) is coming closer, and I have already collected a couple of suggestions for the DB-WG Meeting [1]. So this is a call for suggestions of items for the draft agenda. As I am going to be off the net for the next 2 weeks, please cc: Nigel Titley in case you want to reply to me individually, or to the list. Thanks, and see you in Amsterdam! Wilfried. [1] . impact of the new PDP ("policy" development process) . secureDNS requirements for the DB . whois functionality/service - follow-up (tbc)

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Database Loading Error
by Peter Schroeder 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hello, I have been trying to set up a local snapshot of the RIPE database. I have been receiving this error after several hours of loading data: query not defined for this type of attribute[74] died: +781 modules/ud/ud_core.c ./load_all.sh: line 1: 29427 Broken pipe cat ./load_all.sh: line 72: 29425 Broken pipe ${UNZIP1} ${object_file} 29426 Exit 141 | eval ${FILTER} 29428 Segmentation fault | $LOADER -L $1 -p ${PROPERTIES} -s ${SOURCE} I am using ripe.db.gz from a few days ago. Does anyone know why I would be getting this error? Pete

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To post to this list
by contact＠internetprogress.org 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

To post to this list, my emailadress : contact(a)internetprogress.org Sincerely, Guy Lombart

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Database updates not visible
by Shane Kerr 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Dear Colleagues Our query servers are not synchronising with our update server. A large update is taking place. You may have received an acknowledgement to your update, but do not see your changes when you query the database. Do not worry, the changes have been made, and will be visible as soon as we can update our query servers. If you have not received an acknowledgement to your update, please be patient. The server will process your update as soon as possible. Apologies for any inconvience. -- Shane Kerr Software Engineering Department Manager RIPE NCC

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Anything wrong with RIPE DB?
by Marcus.Ruchti＠colt.net 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi all, Do you know if anything happened with the RIPE DB last evening or even this morning? Our RIPE robot, reading out AS-sets and route objects, deleted a lot of prefixes. Started just a few minutes ago again without any changes to the Robot we got many prefixes back. This was of course service affecting for single-homed PI customers :-( Now I wonder if RIPE is doing something with the DB. I've seen the output has been changed (reduced mainly) but this does not affect my script. So any hints from your side are appreciated. Thanks Marcus Ruchti COLT Telecom, Frankfurt ************************************************************************************* The message is intended for the named addressee only and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone else, nor may it be copied in any way. The contents of this message and its attachments are confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the named addressee and/or have received this message in error, please advise us by e-mailing security(a)colt.net and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Internet communications are not secure and COLT does not accept responsibility for this message, its contents nor responsibility for any viruses. No contracts can be created or varied on behalf of COLT Telecommunications, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("COLT") and any other party by email Communications unless expressly agreed in writing with such other party. Please note that incoming emails will be automatically scanned to eliminate potential viruses and unsolicited promotional emails. For more information refer to www.colt.net or contact us on +44(0)20 7390 3900.

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RIPE DB question
by Dmitry Kiselev 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Can I delete aut-num object from RIPE DB if it registered by me (as LIR) for one of our customers and I have NO auth info refered by object's mnt-by field? In different way question may sound like: how can I return registered resources (PI/ASN) if my customer gone? What is BCP within LIRs for this case? Thanks for advices! P.S. If I choise wrong WG, don't hit me too much ;) :) - -- Dmitry Kiselev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFC8csaZaocAwQhSAQRAhg7AKChkv2sTl4qBoRcnFxAMqYGEQ5kCACbBacj KvojUT8PbYFXR/emNFga9EM= =IFJU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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mntner creation
by Ulf Kieber 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi all, did I miss something or since when does the RIPE DB permit creation of mntner objects by direct mail. Several of our customers have started creating mntners ad libitum and the mntner creation feature on lirportal.ripe.net has become pretty superfluous. -- Ulf Kieber email: ukieber(a)cogentco.com Sr. Network Engineer voice: +49-69-299896-21 C.C.D. Cogent Communications Deutschland GmbH fax : +49-69-299896-40 Optical Internet www : www.cogentco.com Brilliantly Fast. Elegantly Simple. AIM : ulfkieber

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Wierd output of whois/database
by Matthew Smith 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi all, if this is the wrong list, then please point me in the right direction. I am first assuming that I have done something wrong. I should have a role 'AHM' with two person objects (MS33051-RIPE and DB). The whois output (below) also gives two further records at the end which I cannot fathom how or why they appear. Comments please Regards Matthew msmith:mlnet%whois -h whois.ripe.net -- -B AHM % This is the RIPE Whois query server #1. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Note: the default output of the RIPE Whois server % is changed. Your tools may need to be adjusted. See % http://www.ripe.net/db/news/abuse-proposal-20050331.html % for more details. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html % Information related to 'AHM' role: Aexiomus Hostmaster address: Aexiomus Limited address: United Kingdom phone: +44-906-7530143 fax-no: +44-906-7530143 e-mail: hostmaster(a)aexiomus.net e-mail: hostmaster(a)aexiomus.net.uk admin-c: DB tech-c: DB tech-c: MS33051-RIPE nic-hdl: AHM mnt-by: AEXIOMUS-MNT mnt-by: MLNET-MNT notify: hostmaster(a)aexiomus.net.uk source: RIPE changed: hostmaster(a)aexiomus.net.uk 20050504 person: Denesh Bhabuta address: PO Box 2023 address: Wickford address: SS12 9RX address: United Kingdom phone: +44-906-7530143 e-mail: denesh(a)cyberstrider.net e-mail: denesh(a)aexiomus.net.uk e-mail: denesh(a)bhabuta.co.uk e-mail: denesh(a)dbcl.net nic-hdl: DB mnt-by: AEXIOMUS-MNT changed: hostmaster(a)cyberstrider.net 20000821 changed: hostmaster(a)cyberstrider.net 20020208 changed: denesh(a)aexiomus.net.uk 20020515 changed: denesh(a)aexiomus.net.uk 20030630 source: RIPE person: Matthew Smith address: ML Associates, 11 Grove Lane, Great Kimble address: Aylesbury, Bucks, HP17 9TR, UK phone: +44-20-7871-0604 e-mail: hostmaster(a)aexiomus.net e-mail: matthew(a)aexiomus.net e-mail: m(a)mlnet.co.uk e-mail: hostmaster(a)mlnet.net remarks: skype: monthemove nic-hdl: MS33051-RIPE mnt-by: AEXIOMUS-MNT mnt-by: MLNET-MNT source: RIPE changed: m(a)mlnet.net 20050429 changed: m(a)mlnet.net 20050526 % Information related to 'DB' person: SAIDUR AHM RAHMAN address: RAHMAN SAIDUR AHM address: VIA BARTOLOMEO CRISTOFORI 11 address: 00100 ROMA address: Italy phone: +39655302089 fax-no: +39655302089 nic-hdl: SAR32-RIPE changed: order.manager2(a)telecomitalia.it 20041022 source: RIPE % Information related to 'SAR33-RIPE' person: SAIDUR AHM RAHMAN address: RAHMAN SAIDUR AHM address: VIA BARTOLOMEO CRISTOFORI 11 address: 00100 ROMA address: Italy phone: +39655302089 fax-no: +39655302089 nic-hdl: SAR33-RIPE changed: order.manager2(a)telecomitalia.it 20041022 source: RIPE

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Signature expiration check proposal
by Katie Petrusha 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Dear Colleagues, This is a proposal about changes to how the whois database software checks PGP and X.509 signatures on incoming updates. Currently the software checks that the PGP signature is valid by using Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It verifies X.509 signatures with an OpenSSL (Secure Sockets Layer) tool. We propose to change the software, so that it also checks the signature creation date. If the signature is older than one week, it will be rejected and the update will fail. This is to prevent replay attacks on database objects. We became aware of this potential threat when we designed the DNSSEC provisioning system. -- Katie Petrusha RIPE NCC

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