Hello there, the recent revision of network delegations I recently undertook in a commit, only rather large address chunks were updated. Now I learned about ERX, Early Registration Transfer, where the first few years of this century witnessed a large scale splitting, and ensuing transfer to new authorities, of the old B-class and C-class IP-ranges. I was made aware of this matter for APNIC.
I need advice as to the desirability to implement these in our file `whois/ip_del_list'. It would mean entering a lot of 16-bit ranges down to 24-bit ranges, shattered rather arbitrarily over the old classes. Clearly, this would improve the usability of our WHOIS client, but also increase its size due to hardcoded delegation data. I noticed the issue when my client included in OpenIndiana provided me with more relevant answers than did our client. Another question: The client found in Solaris offers a program switch directing the query to Route Arbiter Database (whois.radb.net) where large amounts of information on numeric networks are easily available. Would you welcome a similar addition to our client? Regards, Mats E A
