[RFCI-Discuss] whois records with single ip address (CIDR aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/32)

[Bruce Campbell]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Derek J. Balling wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 10:48  AM, Richard Johnson wrote:
> > I can only consider KRNIC's failure to aggregate nearby entries
> > managed by
> > the same Org Name into a single block entry as an attempt, perhaps
> > deliberate, to obscure the extent of a given entities' allocation.
>
> Someone please make a case that KRNIC's IPWHOIS server is inadequate as
> it doesn't include the netblock information.

'It doesn't include the netblock information for IP space that hasn't been
 further allocated/assigned by a KRNIC member.  It does include netblock
 information in other (most) cases'.

> I can see this being a viable path, if a lucid argument can be set
> forth to defend that position in light of RFC's and BCP's.

Unfortunately, I don't think thats quite in BCP 12.  Something like that
is in APNIC policy (I don't know where though) however.

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                             Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
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