In message <5458EB47.5000901@heanet.ie>, you wrote:
Ronald,
I've raised this with the NCC and asked them to prepare an answer to these questions as I feel they fall within their purview.
Hopefully they will be able to get back to you soon.
Brian Ronald F. Guilmette wrote, On 01/11/2014 03:52:
A few questions, if you don't mind...
Given some arbitrary record which is stored within the RIPE WHOIS data base, such as an organization (ORG-*) record or a record for a number resource, such as an AS, how can I determine the date on which that record was created? Do I just look for the earliest date found in any of the associated changed: fields?
Just to make sure I'm clear... No one on this list knows the answer, even to the above trivial question?
Give an AS number, issued within the RIPE region, how can I find the identity of the associated LIR? Is the identity of the associated LIR provided by the sponsoring-org: field of the WHOIS record for the AS?
Same again. I am rather astonished that not a single person within a group focused on dealing with network abuse issues within the RIPE region can even say how to find the LIR that issued a given AS. Does no one, other than me, ever even get curious about such things?
What sorts of credentials or bona fides must or should applicants who are requesting AS number allocations provide to the RIPE LIR which processes the request(s)?
Same comments as above.
Has any AS number allocation, issued within the RIPE region, ever been revoked without the consent of the registrant of that allocation? If so, which ones? And in those cases, what policies and/or procedures were used or followed during the revocation process? Are these policies and/or procedures written down someplace, or are they entirely ad hoc?
Someone did write to me, off-list, with a semi-response to the above, informing me that ``details'' of RIPE investigations are non-public. I should probably have clarified that I wasn't asking for any specific details about any specific case. I asked, in the first instance, if any AS allocation had ever been revoked. That's a yes/no question, and one which I thought would have been easy to answer, particularly by members of a group focused on network abuse issues. But if all of these questions can only be answered by the NCC, then I guess that's the way it is, and I thank you for forwarding my queries to them.