[84152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Yardley)
Tue Sep 6 17:12:03 2005
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:05:28 -0700
From: Will Yardley <nanog@veggiechinese.net>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:37:53PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote:
> As best I can tell from ARIN documents, ISP still are supposed to SWIP
> or use Rwhois for subassignments of /29 and greater. However, is this
> still widely practiced these days? Especially among smaller ISPs?
My understanding of the ARIN policy is that the reassignment information
must be made available in those cases, but that the reassignment data
doesn't have to be made public - i.e., providing an rwhois server only
accessible to ARIN is acceptable.
w
