AUT-NUM ROUTE OBJECT

Please can any one familiar with route object creation help with
understanding this error

I am having a weird error with AUT-NUM object , even though i am using the
correct maintainer password i keep getting this error message.

Authorisation for parent [as-block]
         using mnt-lower:
         not authenticated by: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT

***Info: Authorisation for [aut-num]
         using mnt-by:
         authenticated by: XXXXX

http://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/lookup/ripe/mntner/RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT.html

Nick

This has been sorted out now.