On 2010-05-10, at 12:48, Nick Hilliard wrote:
- there are some endemic data reliability problems with the IRRDBs, exacerbated by the fact that on most of the widely-used IRRDBs, there is no link between the RIR and the IRRDB, which means that anyone can register any address space. whois.ripe.net doesn't allow this, but lots of other IRRDBs do.
The RIPE db doesn't allow that for routes corresponding to address space assigned by the RIPE NCC. For other routes, you can register whatever you want (so long as nobody else got there first). I'm not complaining about this (I routinely recommend that people use the RIPE db for their non-RIPE address space because as far as I can tell it's about the best-maintained option, and it avoids all kinds of headaches trying to peer in Europe and send routes whose addresses were assigned elsewhere) but in the global context the idea that *everything* in the RIPE db has been subject to strong correlation with assignment/allocation data is false. Joe inetnum: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 netname: IANA-BLK descr: The whole IPv4 address space country: EU # Country is really world wide org: ORG-IANA1-RIPE admin-c: IANA1-RIPE tech-c: IANA1-RIPE status: ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED remarks: The country is really worldwide. remarks: This address space is assigned at various other places in remarks: the world and might therefore not be in the RIPE database. mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-routes: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered inet6num: 0::/0 netname: ROOT descr: Root inet6num object country: EU org: ORG-IANA1-RIPE admin-c: IANA1-RIPE tech-c: CREW-RIPE tech-c: OPS4-RIPE mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-routes: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT status: ALLOCATED-BY-RIR remarks: This network in not allocated. This object is here for Database consistency and to allow hierarchical authorisation checks. source: RIPE # Filtered mntner: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT descr: This maintainer may be used to create objects to represent descr: routing policy in the RIPE Database for number resources not descr: allocated or assigned from the RIPE NCC. admin-c: RD132-RIPE auth: MD5-PW $1$ScJSM7nN$Xw3aAduCRZx4QUEq8QjR5/ remarks: ******************************************************* remarks: * The password for this object is 'RPSL', without the * remarks: * quotes. Do NOT use this maintainer as 'mnt-by'. * remarks: ******************************************************* mnt-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered