Andre, Andre Koopal wrote: [...]
I was really under the impression we agreed that if you lookup an ip-number the correct inetnum would be displayed together with the relevant irt object that might be from a level up. It has been remarked that in that way a not referenced block would be returned, but that was taken for granted.
I still think the above solution must be implemented to make the irt object usefull, and if the code can't easily handle it, the code must be changed.
Yes, that is what we plan to implement. There are a few details that need to be clarified, but that will be in the proposal that will be sent to the working group shortly. The matter of discussion was deployment considerations: whether to implement this new behaviour for the default query right away, or with a -c flag. It was suggested that at the first phase we may want to implement it as a default behaviour for the whois web cgi, but expect the whois client to use the -c flag explicitly. And that would meet the needs of the average user.
Whatever options will be implemented to finetune the output for experienced users/coders I don't care, but the average user should see the relevant information.
Regards,
Andre Koopal
Regards, Andrei