Extended delegated statistics
Dear Colleagues, Since 2003, the RIPE NCC and the other RIRs have published daily files detailing all assigned and allocated IP resources. These are also known as the "delegated files" In 2011, a RIPE Labs article was published describing an extension to these files. This article is available at: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/new-ripe-ncc-address-statistics-reports Starting from Wednesday 23 May 2012, the extended delegated files will be published at the following URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc The extended delegated files will list all resources managed by the RIPE NCC, including those which make up part of the free pool. The resources will be listed like this: ripencc||ipv4|5.22.224.0|73728||available We have overhauled the code that generates the regular delegated files. One area which has been improved is the accuracy of the country code attribute for all entries, especially for direct assignments such as PI and AS Numbers. For all resources the country code was lifted from the RIPE Database object describing the resource. This was done as a one-time import and stored in our internal records. This has resulted in a massive decrease in the occurrence of the catch-all country code "EU" in both the regular and extended delegated files. However, it is still possible that there are inaccuracies with regards to the country code for some entries. Please contact lir-help@ripe.net in such cases. Regards, Alex Le Heux Policy Implementation & Coordination RIPE NCC
At 17:33 16/05/2012 +0200, Alex Le Heux wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Since 2003, the RIPE NCC and the other RIRs have published daily files detailing all assigned and allocated IP resources. These are also known as the "delegated files"
In 2011, a RIPE Labs article was published describing an extension to these files. This article is available at:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/new-ripe-ncc-address-statistics-reports
Starting from Wednesday 23 May 2012, the extended delegated files will be published at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc
I am looking at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/delegated-ripencc-20120523 and find it hasn't been updated. -Hank
The extended delegated files will list all resources managed by the RIPE NCC, including those which make up part of the free pool. The resources will be listed like this:
ripencc||ipv4|5.22.224.0|73728||available
We have overhauled the code that generates the regular delegated files. One area which has been improved is the accuracy of the country code attribute for all entries, especially for direct assignments such as PI and AS Numbers. For all resources the country code was lifted from the RIPE Database object describing the resource. This was done as a one-time import and stored in our internal records. This has resulted in a massive decrease in the occurrence of the catch-all country code "EU" in both the regular and extended delegated files.
However, it is still possible that there are inaccuracies with regards to the country code for some entries. Please contact lir-help@ripe.net in such cases.
Regards,
Alex Le Heux Policy Implementation & Coordination RIPE NCC
I am looking at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/delegated-ripencc-20120523 and find it hasn't been updated.
Dear Hank, The files are generated in the evening. Apologies that I did not make this more clear in the announcement. Best regards, Alex Le Heux Policy Implementation & Coordination RIPE NCC
* Alex Le Heux
Starting from Wednesday 23 May 2012, the extended delegated files will be published at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc
Hello, There are some problems with the delegated-ripencc-20120423 and delegated-ripencc-extended-20120423 currently available on the FTP: Firstly, the headers in both files indicate that they are current as of 20120424, which obviously is an impossiblity since that's today and at the time of writing, the NCC hasn't even opened yet. Secondly, and more importantly, both files are missing recent delegations. The most recent delegations listed in the files are dated 20120504. The NCC has certainly made plenty of delegations since 20120504, though. For what it's worth, the 2012/delegated-ripencc-20120523.bz2 file does not suffer from either of these problems. Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
At 07:24 24/05/2012 +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
* Alex Le Heux
Starting from Wednesday 23 May 2012, the extended delegated files will be published at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc
Hello,
There are some problems with the delegated-ripencc-20120423 and delegated-ripencc-extended-20120423 currently available on the FTP:
Another problem is that the previous file was sorted by IP and now it is sorted by allocated/assigned field and then only by IP so one needs to know whether the IP block is allocated or assigned and jumping back and forth between the 2 sections. Can the file be sorted once gain by IP? Thanks, Hank
Firstly, the headers in both files indicate that they are current as of 20120424, which obviously is an impossiblity since that's today and at the time of writing, the NCC hasn't even opened yet.
Secondly, and more importantly, both files are missing recent delegations. The most recent delegations listed in the files are dated 20120504. The NCC has certainly made plenty of delegations since 20120504, though.
For what it's worth, the 2012/delegated-ripencc-20120523.bz2 file does not suffer from either of these problems.
Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
Dear Tore,
There are some problems with the delegated-ripencc-20120423 and delegated-ripencc-extended-20120423 currently available on the FTP:
Thank you for reporting these issues. We hope to have these fixed today. Best regards, Alex Le Heux RIPE NCC IP Resource Analyst
* Alex Le Heux
Thank you for reporting these issues.
We hope to have these fixed today.
I can see that they are, thanks! I have a couple questions regarding some changes from the "beta" delegated-extended files (that were available from http://albatross.ripe.net/delegated-extended/): 1) A new status field "reserved" has appeared. Most (all?) of the IPv4 resources with this status was "available" in the beta files. A couple of random examples:
From beta file: ripencc||ipv4|5.10.0.0|16384||available ripencc||ipv4|194.145.208.0|512||available
From new file: ripencc||ipv4|5.10.0.0|16384||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.145.208.0|512||reserved
Am I correct in assuming that reserved resources are either deemed to problematic for delegation by the debogon project, or recently returned resources placed in a temporary quarantine? Are there any other reasons why (IPv4) resources may end up as reserved? Will all of these reserved resources be automatically freed up and delegated by the NCC prior to implementing the last /8 policy, or will they be considered unavailable for the purpose of determining whether or not the last /8 policy's trigger criteria, «RIPE NCC is required to make allocations from the final /8 it receives from the IANA», is met? 2) Available resources are no longer split into CIDR boundaries. Not a big deal, but I must admit I preferred the old way from the beta file, so I am wondering if this is an intentional change or if would be possible to get the old way back. Random example:
From beta file: ripencc||ipv4|194.153.156.64|64||available ripencc||ipv4|194.153.156.128|128||available
From new file: ripencc||ipv4|194.153.156.64|192||available
Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
Dear Tore,
1) A new status field "reserved" has appeared. Most (all?) of the IPv4 resources with this status was "available" in the beta files. A couple of random examples:
[...]
Am I correct in assuming that reserved resources are either deemed to problematic for delegation by the debogon project, or recently returned resources placed in a temporary quarantine? Are there any other reasons why (IPv4) resources may end up as reserved?
IPv4 resources end up reserved because they are either in quarantine or because they are part of a special block not available for "normal" assignments or allocations, such as the space that is reserved for temporary assignments. Space that is actively being debogonised is listed as 'allocated'.
Will all of these reserved resources be automatically freed up and delegated by the NCC prior to implementing the last /8 policy, or will they be considered unavailable for the purpose of determining whether or not the last /8 policy's trigger criteria, «RIPE NCC is required to make allocations from the final /8 it receives from the IANA», is met?
All space that is not part of a block that is reserved for use after we reach the last /8, such as the temporary assignment pool and the last /8 itself, will be freed up and assigned and/or allocated before we reach the last /8.
2) Available resources are no longer split into CIDR boundaries. Not a big deal, but I must admit I preferred the old way from the beta file, so I am wondering if this is an intentional change or if would be possible to get the old way back. Random example:
From beta file: ripencc||ipv4|194.153.156.64|64||available ripencc||ipv4|194.153.156.128|128||available
From new file: ripencc||ipv4|194.153.156.64|192||available
The file format specifically does not define entries as CIDR ranges, but as startIP+size blocks. In the "old" statistics files, some entries were split on CIDR boundaries and others were not. With the new implementation, it was decided to list entries consistently as non-CIDR ranges. Best regards, Alex Le Heux RIPE NCC
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