[db-wg] [announce] releasing a tool to help LIR visualizing IPv4 LIR-as signments vs RIPE-allocations

Hello,

LDCOM Networks/N9uf telecom release its tool ripe_wrap. 

Its purpose is to enable a LIR to make a cross view between Assigned
inetnums (such as seen when making a whois request) and the "netnames"
allocated by the RIPE (such as seen through the lirportal).

It gives usefull information such as biggest available holes per ip-range, %
of assigned space over the space that was declared for a netname.

Since LDCOM is not a software editor, it has been decided to release our
tool under Afferro GPL licence. Temporarily, its location is
http://www.julbox.net/ripe_wrap-1.0.tgz 

I use it every day and I think it is quite fine, but I made no intensive
test. Please report to the author(s) (see AUTHORS) any bug(s) and
suggestion.

Our main gool is to build a toolbox for a LIR to work on its RIPE
informations without hosting any Database by crossing various informations
such as the configuration it have on its network equipments. 

Beware, first access is slow since it makes requests to the web and then
sort out the data. We will think of a way to improve this ... later. 

Friendly,

--
Julien Tayon  - 
N9uf Telecom - BU DATA  -  +33 1 70 18  14 45 
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