A provider has made the claim to me that RIPE is allocating /24's addresses to various European providers. Is this true? What affect does this have on providers with prefix-length filters? Or is this provider just mis-reading the RIPE allocation database. It isn't always clear at what point RIPE has delegate something, and at what point a provider has registered a more specific route since the delegation and routing database appear to be merged in the RIPE model. And in fact the RBnet could aggregate many of these announcements.
Network [...] *>i62.76.0.0/22 [...] *>i62.76.4.0/23 [...] *>i62.76.6.0/23 [...] *>i62.76.8.0/24 [...] *>i62.76.122.0/24 [...] *>i62.76.124.0/23 [...] *>i62.76.128.0/23 [...] *>i62.76.130.0/24 [...] *>i62.76.136.0/23 [...] *>i62.76.144.0/21 [...]
-- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation