ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED ???

Hi,

Marcus.Ruchti at colt.de wrote To lir-wg at ripe.net:
> we've problems with creating a route object for
> the network 193.102.74.0/24.
> Sony Europe is our customer and told us,
> this network is their PI space, but the status for the whole
> IP block is ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED !
> What does this mean an how can I create (or who)
> a route object for this network ?

This has nothing to do with PI vs. PA vs. UNSPECIFIED.

To establish an route-object in the RIPE-db you have to fullfill the
following maintainers:

- the maintainer of the inetnum
- the maintainer of the AS number referenced in the route-object as
  origin
- the maintainer of a less specific route-object (if there is any)

Maintainers for route-objects are always checked in the order 
mnt-routes, mnt-lower, mnt-by.

In your concrete case this would mean you have to fullfill
RIPE-NCC-NONE-MNT (inetnum), DE-COLT-MNT (AS9126) and UUNET-MNT
(193.96.0.0/13).

I don't know how this is possible to achieve. IMHO the only possibility
is to get an route-object entered by RIPE hostmaster who can overwrite
the authorisations needed.

I would like to hear an official statement from RIPE about this, if this
is the only way to go and what the procedure should look like.

-Marcus

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Marcus Rist