1. I have a /24 SWIPed to me, 205.238.207.0. The ARIN listing doesn't say it's non-portable, so can I take it with me? The ARIN db lost all portable/non-portable atributes in the conversion. Unless folks have gone back and requested they get re-tagged, portability is unclear from the ARIN db.
Lost as in not displayed to queries or lost as in nobody knows what's portable anymore and the canonical data is destroyed?
I can't imagine the latter is the case, but your assertion is of sufficient mangnitude to demand clarification.
The data was never lost or destroyed. The portable/non-portable data is kept in a comments field and during the conversion that field was not tagged (for some reason) to show up in WHOIS. As soon as we realized the problem it was fixed. Individual addresses that are reassigned from an ISPs block are not usually tagged portable or non-portable, it is the parent block that states whether addresses in that block are portable or not. Kim
-alan