Dear Colleagues, Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th December), as part of the Whois 1.96 release, we also plan to remove the "mnt-lower" attribute from all "aut-num" objects.
Following the Whois release, this attribute will be filtered out from aut-num updates with a warning (i.e. updates won't fail). We will notify the DB-WG again once this is complete. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC > On 21 Oct 2019, at 11:34, Edward Shryane via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > as presented during the DB-WG session at RIPE 79, we plan to remove the > "mnt-lower" attribute from the aut-num object type. > > From the RIPE database documentation [0]: > > “mnt-lower: This attribute has no meaning in the aut-num object. In the > RIPE NCC service region, we do not allocate blocks of > AS numbers for users to assign from. All AS numbers are assigned by the > RIPE NCC therefore there is no hierarchy to ‘maintain’ > or authorise against. This attribute should be deprecated.” > > > We plan to implement this change in the next Whois release (we will announce > this separately). > > We do not expect any operational impact. It is currently an optional > attribute. This attribute will be removed (with a warning) from any aut-num > updates. > > At the same time, we plan to remove this attribute from approximately 948 of > 35,144 aut-num objects. We will announce separately to the db-wg and affected > maintainers, before and after removal. > > Please let me know of any feedback or questions you may have. > > Regards > Ed Shryane > RIPE NCC > > > [0] > https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/ripe-database-documentation/rpsl-object-types/4-2-descriptions-of-primary-objects/4-2-1-description-of-the-aut-num-object > >
