Nigel

Thank you - a stand alone tool is much preferred over API.  I look
forward to get my scripts working again

Rgds Nina


On 17.01.2012 16:58:03 +0000, Nigel Titley wrote:
> On 17/01/2012 16:21, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> > Problem is, we don't yet have a replacement command-line tool for dealing
> > with quick-n-easy LIR resource usage summarisation.  This has meant that
> > the people who depended on this tool were left hanging for the last 8
> > years, because the code slowly rotted as interfaces subtly changed over
> > time.  This is not a criticism of changing the DB interface or anything,
> > btw - progress needs to happen.
> >
> > In terms of being platform specific, it was limited to any platform which
> > could run perl - perhaps with minor modifications.  There are lots of
> > complaints that people make about perl, (some legitimate) but platform
> > portability is not one of them.
> >
> > OTOH, webasused can be very slow.  E.g. I submitted a request for a LIR at
> > 15:28 GMT today, and got a reply at 15:39.  This makes it unusable for a
> > typical workflow process (e.g. run asused, check output against internal
> > records, submit a couple of updates, run asused again, check again, repeat
> > until satisfied).
> >
> > The web version is also unauthenticated which means that it's open to third
> > parties submitting requests for arbitrary LIRs.  And it doesn't support
> > ipv6, which means that it's still difficult to do resource reconciliation
> > for v6 assignments.
> >
> > I'll admit that not everyone likes command line tools, but for those of us
> > who continue to us asused, it's a real pity that it wasn't maintained and
> > further developed to support ipv6.
> >
>
> Nick, Alex et al
>
> At the Board meeting on the 8th December the board gave Axel an action
> "to reinstate/redevelop the stand-alone version of the RIPE NCC ASused tool"
>
> I doubt that this action would be satisfied merely by the provision of
> an API into the webasused tool.
>
> Alex, you may like to check this with Axel. It is possible that it was
> misunderstood by him, but it is very clearly minuted.
>
> And I'd agree with Nick that lack of platform portability is one of the
> few brickbats that cannot be aimed atperl.
>
> Nigel
>