Yes I know about asused. It is a good tool for determining overlap status or some missing attributes/contact informations and to get some statistical information. I think it will be usefull to access asused from IPMT. But my main concern was also whether we can find such a criteria/metric that can be used both RIR's and LIR's ? Here are some metrics I have thought;

- Possible largest allocation left in the totall allocation of LIR - How fragmented the allocation space (may be mapped to above one) - How summarizable are the address space assigned to a customer. - How summarizable are total allocations ?

Summarizability issues seem to conflict with RIR policies. However I think that it is a fact of routing world.

Regards arif

I do not think there is anything wrong with detailed reporting. I think that maybe the program needs a specification before we can really use metrics to measure anything. I too would like to see IPMT eventually give verbose output on the state of the registry. However, will this not to some extent duplicate functionality of programs such as asused-public that already exist? Please clarify what you would like, because I think I am still confused. I think that Maldwyn's comments would be useful here. Guy -- Guy Vegoda \ guy@vegoda.org *Please do not send html* NIC: GUY-RIPE \ guy@cryptography.org.uk *attachments* Unix, Linux Hobbyist \ +44(0)20 7961 8318 (work) www.thenakedfrenchman.com \ +44(0)958 469 532 (cell)