[address-policy-wg] 62.222.0.0/15

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:14:23AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Regardless of what that other non-authoritative source of information
> may say, may I ask you to please tell me what *you* see when *you* perform
> the following two commands?
> 
> whois -h whois.ripe.net -- "--list-versions 62.222.0.0/15"
> whois -h whois.ripe.net -- "--show-version 1 62.222.0.0/15"
> 
> Maybe I need new glasses, but I'm not seeing the year 2002 mentioned in
> the outputs of these two commands.
> 
> Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.  Do I need to try using negative numbers
> as arguments to the --show-version option?
> 
> Does that option accept imaginary numbers as arguments?

Start from reading some documentation.

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/ripe-database-documentation/types-of-queries/16-12-historical-queries

"It is possible to query the history of operational data objects that
still exist."

It has been already pointed out that this /15 could have been part of
something bigger or, quite contrary, part of two separate /16 or even
something completely different, which means that the original object
could be non-existent. Checking this out is left as an exercise for the
reader.

Piotr

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Piotr Strzyżewski
Silesian University of Technology, Computer Centre
Gliwice, Poland