Daniel Stolpe wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 25/02/2013 09:56, Daniel Stolpe wrote:
Yes. And when the owners want an update they may be locked in the process och showing that they are in fact the right owners. We have a customer, a large corporate group that everybody in my country knows about and I would even say most people would agree that the original owner of a /16 is now part of this group and ask no further questions but what documentation is there now from a merger in 2000?
Probably lots if they were large enough to get a /16.
Of course their is documentation somewhere.
Not necessarily. In the "old days" quite a bit of networking and address distribution was done over the phone, on fax or by using non-IP-based eMail. One such example /16: status: ASSIGNED PI changed: porten@mvs.gmd.de 19900816 That's the date when it was possible(!) to register in the RIPE DB. The address block itself was obtained in the context of an IBM-related research project. Does anyone expect the current holder and user to still have a "paper trail"? Wilfried
But for a technician to get hold of exactly the right paper provning that the entity formerly known as A is now a part of the entity B might not be an easy task.
Regards,
Daniel Stolpe
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