The working group agreed upon the minutes of the previous meeting, and accepted the draft agenda earlier circulated on the mailing list. To ask Tony Bates to send a copy of his regular CIDR report to the general RIPE mailing list as well. To write proposal document and circulate to the RIPE Routing WG mailing list for discussion as soon as possible. There have been 2 BOF sessions up to now, and it will become an IETF working group soon. Major objective of the group is how registries can exchange data from their databases.
Major objective is a formalized and extensible description of routing policies on the Internet.
One of the results from the RPS working group is RPSL, the Routing Policy Specification Language. To give the RIPE community an overview of the current situation and of planned activities a joint session of the Routing and DB working groups will be held this RIPE meeting. There are currently two important topics regarding routing issues the RIPE NCC is working on. On the one hand RPSL has a lot of attention where the RPSL Transition Session is meant to give an overview. Work on this field at the current stage consists of coordination for the most part, but in the near future database coding will be the most important item.