SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

Wed Sep 7 02:42:31 UTC 2005

william(at)elan.net wrote:

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> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
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>>>>>>> "william" == william(at)elan net <william at elan.net> writes:
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>> william> The above line is as clear as it gets (if the other two
>> william> mentions that data is to be made available to public is not
>> william> enough), so there this argument that rwhois should be made
>> william> available only to ARIN is now against ARIN's policies and
>> william> whoever you know who is still making it should be pointed to
>> william> URL I listed.
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>> NetRange:   4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
>> ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.level3.net:4321
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>> % telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321
>> Trying 209.244.1.179...
>> telnet: connect to address 209.244.1.179: Operation timed out
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>> Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet...
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> Its kind of hard for ARIN to enforce its policies on L3 when they have
> a /8 already and are not likely to ask for additional allocation...
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> But obviously L3 is not giving a very good example for others, so we
> can all now say - don't be like L3 :)
>
Does ARIN have a policy that allows deallocation based on not conforming 
to the requirements of allocations...?

(Might sound ridiculous, but if it works.....)

Regards,

Mat