[18180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small vent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Mon Jun 29 11:25:44 1998
To: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
cc: brian@meganet.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:17:52 +0800.
<199806280047.JAA08559@svc01.apnic.net>
From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 08:57:46 +0200
> "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net> writes:
> APNIC has a policy that _all_ "permanent" reassignments made by ISPs must
> be recorded in the APNIC database before address space is considered used.
> This policy is recursive; it includes address space assigned to customers
> of ISP customers of ISPs (etc), even to the point of individual /32s
> assigned in the case of static dialups or virtual hosting.
>
> I believe RIPE-NCC has a similar policy (although their hierarchy is much
> shallower that the AP region's for reasons I've never been to clear on).
For the record: The RIPE NCC does have the same policy. Looking at the
relative depths of the registration hierarchy and possible explanations
is an interesting idea.
I also fully agree that a single whois interface to all address space
registrations is very desirable. The RIPE NCC and ARIN provide that
using the -a flag on their servers. This is easy for us because we
happen to use almost identical database schemata. The InterNIC and now
ARIN face the problem of a different schema. Exchange between the
databases has been on the agenda for at least 5 years. If it was easy
it would have been done now. If you want the priority raised, talk to
*your* regional registry.
Daniel
