In message <1689008734.428292.1575985321858@mail.yahoo.com>, at 13:42:01 on Tue, 10 Dec 2019, "ripedenis@yahoo.co.uk" <ripedenis@yahoo.co.uk> writes
Hi guys
Historical queries to the RIPE Database only go back as far as the 'most recent' creation. So you can see changes made to the currently existing INETNUM object. If the object has been deleted and re-created it is not possible to query for the previous incarnation of the object. This was an arbitrary decision made when the historical query feature was introduced. The data is still available in the RIPE Database for all previous incarnations of an object.
It has been suggested in the past that this service be extended to show all previous history (excluding personal data). If there is sufficient interest, maybe someone would like to propose such a change and it can be looked into in more detail.
Thus, if law enforcement turned up and asked "about this /22 IP range, which we know has been in the hands of a beleaguered UK ISP the previous few months, but who was responsible for it, say, a year ago", you'd say "it's in the database, but you can't access it, because we don't have a query for it"? -- Roland Perry