On Thu, 14 May 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
One item that is currently before the ARIN Advisory Council is a suggestion that we publish a map of all currently allocated IP space and keep that map up to date.
You mean like ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipv4-address-space ????
Sort of, but more detailled and including sub-allocations and accessible via the whois protocol. For instance, the IANA list shows 61/8 as allocated to APNIC but since they are a registry they are carving it up into smaller blocks. For filtering purposes, 3/8 and 61/8 are quite different.
One which may be usefull is registering the 'unassigned' IANA blocks in the IRR with a special AS number (e.g. AS0 or AS65535) so people can use the RtConfig tools to create filters by exception (e.g. NOT AS0) But there is already so much junk like 0.0.0.0/1 in there already, I hesitate doing it.
If ARIN sets up their own database then it should be possible to make it usable by RtConfig tools if there is a demand for that. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*