Dear Colleagues, We will carry out maintenance work on the RIPE Database update server, cello.ripe.net, on Friday, 4 August 2006 between 09:00-10:00 (UTC). During this period, you may experience outages when trying to use the following services: - RIPE Database updates (including the web interface and synchronous interface) - Queries to our mirrored databases (using -a query flag) Any updates sent to the mail interface will be queued and processed later. We apologise for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact: ripe-dbm@ripe.net. Regards, Denis Walker Software Engineering Department RIPE NCC