A reminder for users of the RADB database service: at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT on
January 1, 2000, the transition to the Routing Policy Specification
Language (RPSL) database will be complete. After January 1, RIPE-181
object submissions will no longer be accepted.
RIPE-181 submissions made between now and 1/1/2000 will continue to be
visible on whois.radb.net as RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL.
Availability of the database in both syntax languages eases the transition
to RPSL by allowing users to view RIPE-181 objects converted to RPSL.
RIPE-181 queries will be possible until January 1 via whois queries to
whois-ripe181.radb.net. However, you will need to *RECONFIGURE* your
tools to explicitly query whois-ripe181.radb.net and send RIPE-181
submissions to auto-ripe181.radb.net.
For more information, see:
http://www.merit.edu/radb/announce.html
Please send questions or comments to db-admin@radb.net.
--Gerald Winters
Merit IRRd team
Hmm, who was this clueless manager who decided to do such things in the 1-th of
January. I guess the programmers over the world will be very busy during january
looking for the hidden Y2K bugs and fixing it, and why RADB decided to add some
more troubles just in this days? Why don't wait until, at least, February? What
terrible happen if this changes will be delayed a little?
Hmm, who was this clueless manager who decided to do such things
in the 1-th of January. I guess the programmers over the world
will be very busy during january looking for the hidden Y2K bugs
and fixing it, and why RADB decided to add some more troubles just
in this days? Why don't wait until, at least, February? What
terrible happen if this changes will be delayed a little?
Maybe that manager didn't believe that there were actually going to be
any problems come Y2K, and wanted to make sure he was getting his
money's worth from his engineers 
> A reminder for users of the RADB database service: at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT on
> January 1, 2000, the transition to the Routing Policy Specification
> Language (RPSL) database will be complete. After January 1, RIPE-181
> object submissions will no longer be accepted.
>
> RIPE-181 queries will be possible until January 1 via whois queries to
This doesn't actually make much sense...it says that the -submission-
system will be changing, but then that -queries- will be possible
until that date.
Is it one, the other, or both?