Re: Question on "Network Number Usage Survey"

• To: (Erik-Jan Bos)
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• Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:01:29 -0800 (PST)
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• Posted-date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:01:29 -0800 (PST)

> 
> PIER,
> 
> as contact person for a block of addresses, registered in the data
> bases of The InterNIC, I get many many "Network Number Usage Survey"s.
> The first ten-or-so I answered. However, I just received another dozen
> or so.
> 
> When I would have been the official contact for all of these networks I
> surely would have answered all individual messages. However, all of
> these networks are in use in Europe, hence the data in the InterNIC
> data bases is not authoritative IMHO. For Europe, this information
> should be gathered from the RIPE data bases (whois.ripe.net).
> 
> In the RIPE data base, in which SURFnet stores *all* of its information
> regarding networks, all correct contact persons can be found.
> 
> Could you please query the RIPE data base as well, for networks in use in
> Europe?! Thanks.
> 
> Erik-Jan.
> 

Hi,
	It's just me, Suzane, and the robot.  The robot took a snapshot
	of the InterNic database of delegated blocks and sent/is sending
	the can'ed email to the listed coordinator for every delegated
	prefix in the 192.x.x.x range.

	Note that this is only being done for prefixes in the 192/8 range.
	As far as I can tell, RIPE NCC was never delegated this block.
	People are, of course, free to register their delegations, from 
	what ever source, into their routing registry of choice. The intent
	was to use the authoritative delegation registry to verify use.

	Now this points out a couple of interesting things:

	- The InterNic data could be better organized. For those organiziations
	  which have been delegated consecutive /24s, an effort could/should
	  be made to have the InterNic recast these delegations as a single
	  CIDR entry instead of the component parts.  This is being followed
	  up on with the InterNic.  (Reduces the number of queries that
	  you see)

	- If the idea of using the same delegation and routing registry 
	  appeals to you, you may want to consider how to return those old,
	  nasty 192 delegations and use the clean blocks from the RIPE NCC.
	  (Here is where PIER might be of help)

--bill

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