In message <20130207122029.GF51699@Space.Net>, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
If a rogue LIR gets a fresh /29 every week...
My apologies for using the above as a jumping off point for a set of questions that are mostly unrelated to what Gert was talking about, but... Question: How may an independent researcher, such as myself, determine the entire set of address (IPv4 or IPv6) allocations that have been issued, by RIPE NCC, to a given LIR? Question: Given some pre-existing record for an IP{4,6} address block that exists, right now, within the RIPE WHOIS server, how may one determine which LIR, specifically, was responsible for assignment of that address block to the registered end user? If this information is not presently available within the RIPE WHOIS records, there is there any human being within RIPE NCC who can/will, upon request, supply this information? Question: Given some specific "admin-c" or "tech-c" contact handle, how may one determine the entire set of number resources that are, at present, associated with that given handle? Question: For the RIPE WHOIS server, is there some way to query the server in a way so that the only responses from the server will be strictly and only those records where there is an *exact match* of the "netname:" field to the query string (i.e, no implicit trailing wildcard)? Question: Within RIPE WHOIS records, may one organization use a par- ticular "netname" to designate its network, even if some different organization is already using that exact same "netname"? Thanks in advance for any and all answers. Regards, rfg