Dear Ping Lu, you wrote:

We had a lively discussion about the RPSL transition during the RIPE-38 meeting. This is correct, and I very much appreciate the input you provided during our joint working group session.

Well, if we can't fight them then the best thing to do is to join them. Do I need to be worried now? I never considered this to be a fight ;-)

With the company's support behind us, we (Cable & Wireless Global) as a legacy LIR (used to be MCI) would like to work with RIPE to help the RPSL transition.

CW will adopt a similar schedule as RIPE's to transform our Routing Registry into the new RPSL format. This will probably make all the mirroring LIRs' job much easier and hopefully all the downstream ISPs happier (only the RPSL format to deal with).

So GO FOR IT. I welcome your approval. I believe I do not exaggerate stating that you can count on the support from the RIPE community and the NCC in particular in the transition effort.

Thanks Joachim --- JS395-RIPE -- standard disclaimer ---