Interesting object in the RIPE database

>>>>> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, "RLE" == Robert_Martin-Leg=E8ne wrote:

  RLE> Doesn't mean that it makes sense in the IP Registry world. Let's be
  RLE> practical.

And besides, classful addressing is a Thing of the Past (ahem).  The BSD
way of doing it is clever, but complicated and it has no place in the DB,
IMO.  I always understood that the DB software would pad missing octets at
the end of an IP address, no ambiguity there.

What I'm surprised about is that the DB apparently allows someone to
register address space that's most likely not even theirs...

Of course, once it gets allocated and entered into the DB, a conflict will 
be detected and flagged (right!?), but until then, the error will go 
undetected.  Is this a feature?

Cheers,
Steven