[db-wg] Certain sponsored? ASNs without sponsoring-org

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:57:47AM +0100, Cynthia Revström via db-wg wrote:

Cynthia,

> So I have now run across several ASNs in which the org is of type "OTHER" 
> yet there is no sponsoring-org, could this please be clarified?
>
> Example ASNs: AS200358, AS204842
>
> If it is like I think it is, it must be that they have lost their sponsors 
> but if that is the case, I would like to see a remark that is an "RIPE NCC 
> managed value" saying something like "This ASN does not have any sponsor 
> since YYYY-MM-DD".
>
> I am not entirely sure on this but something to clarify what is going on.

Please read
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/faq/independent-resources/phase-three/what-is-a-sponsoring-lir
If the resource (ASN) is used by the LIR itself, there is no need to put
any sponsoring-org since there is no sponsoring LIR for such resource.

Piotr

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