At 15:25 05/07/01 +0200, RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service wrote: What about a PDF version? -Hank

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Ref: ripe-223 Title: RIPE Database Reference Manual Author: RIPE-NCC Date: 5 July 2001 Format: PS=263983 TXT=112854 Obsoletes: ripe-189, ripe-157

Short content description ------------------------- The "RIPE Database Reference Manual" describes the functionality of the new version of the RIPE Database software that now uses the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) to represent all database objects. RPSL defines an extended syntax for all database objects, mainly for the routing registry objects.

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