[ncc-services-wg] Finding previous user of IP addresses
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Roland Perry
roland at internetpolicyagency.com
Tue Dec 10 15:53:02 CET 2019
In message <1689008734.428292.1575985321858 at mail.yahoo.com>, at 13:42:01 on Tue, 10 Dec 2019, "ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk" <ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk> writes >Hi guys > >Historical queries to the RIPE Database only go back as far as the >'most recent' creation. So you can see changes made to the currently >existing INETNUM object. If the object has been deleted and re-created >it is not possible to query for the previous incarnation of the object. >This was an arbitrary decision made when the historical query feature >was introduced. The data is still available in the RIPE Database for >all previous incarnations of an object. > >It has been suggested in the past that this service be extended to show >all previous history (excluding personal data). If there is sufficient >interest, maybe someone would like to propose such a change and it can >be looked into in more detail. Thus, if law enforcement turned up and asked "about this /22 IP range, which we know has been in the hands of a beleaguered UK ISP the previous few months, but who was responsible for it, say, a year ago", you'd say "it's in the database, but you can't access it, because we don't have a query for it"? -- Roland Perry
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