[address-policy-wg] Registry - not a policy proposal
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Piotr Strzyzewski
Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl
Tue Jun 1 18:17:44 CEST 2010
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:43:49AM -0700, Leo Vegoda wrote: > > Ref. Section 5, "comprehensive": > > > > From a "consumer's" point of view, the RIPE NCC Address Registry should > > return a valid answer about the status of *all* addresses in the IPv4 space. > > > > The answer will necessarily be different, depending on the status of the > > address block and the authority regarding the answer. > > > > For those addresses, which are authoritatively managed by other RIRs, there > > should be an indication where to find "better" information. We are already > > pretty far down that path :-) > > The 'user friendly' thing to do is probably to go and find them the > end answer, rather than referring them to somewhere else to look up > the answer. This is probably particularly important when the query is > made by a piece of software that is not aware that it needs to follow > a referral. I believe that this is not always the best solution. Although this is generally good idea when user is querying registry using some API with well-defined output, I can imagine that simple redirection of text-based whois output from other registry can confuse the querying software. Piotr -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl
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