[db-wg] RIPE DB syntax check for mp-import

Hi Job, Tomas,

I've added a bug to the Whois project on GitHub: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/issues/305

We will investigate further.

Thanks,

Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC



> On 6 Aug 2015, at 10:23, Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 01:51:10AM +0200, Tomas Hlavacek wrote:
>> I just noticed that aut-num object for AS2852 in RIPE DB contains line
>> 
>> mp-import:      afi ipv6.unicastfrom AS39790
>> 
>> with 'afi ipv6.unicast' and 'from' keywords merged, which causs some
>> confusion of my parsing scripts.
>> 
>> Maybe I am missing something but I think this is not syntactically valid, is
>> it? And if it is not, how could that get into RIPE DB?
> 
> Smells like a bug!
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4012 states:
> 
>   The possible values for <afi> are as follows:
> 
>      ipv4.unicast
>      ipv4.multicast
>      ipv4 (equivalent to ipv4.unicast, ipv4.multicast)
>      ipv6.unicast
>      ipv6.multicast
>      ipv6 (equivalent to ipv6.unicast, ipv6.multicast)
>      any (equivalent to ipv4, ipv6)
>      any.unicast (equivalent to ipv4.unicast, ipv6.unicast)
>      any.multicast (equivalent to ipv4.multicast, ipv6.multicast)
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job
> 

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