[db-wg] Non-RIPE INRs in an Example returned by RIPE Whois DB Query Service

Hi Sylvain,

Is your issue simply with using 128.9.0.0/16 and 128.9.128.5/32 as
examples rather than a prefix reserved for documentation or something
like 192.168.0.0/16? (there is no /16 for documentation purposes
afaik)

It is a bit difficult for me to understand what you mean so please
correct me if I misunderstood.

I assume INR means Internet Number Resource?

-Cynthia

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 10:37 PM Sylvain Baya via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> Dear DB-WG,
>
> Hopefully this email finds you in good health!
>
> While exploring some RIPE Whois DB classes [1],
> i discovered some examples, i thought to be
> inappropriate [3].
>
> ...i would like to draw to your attention, on the
> presence of some INRs [2] managed [3] by an
> other RIR, which appear in content returned when
> the RIPE Database is queried [2].
> __
> [1]: <paste1>
> cacty at shalom:~$ whois -h whois.ripe.net -t route | grep --regexp="^holes" --after-context=0
> holes:          [optional]   [multiple]   [ ]
> </paste1>
> [2]: <paste2>
> cacty at shalom:~$ whois -h whois.ripe.net -v route | grep --regexp="^holes$" --after-context=11
> holes
>
>    Lists the component address prefixes that are not reachable through
>    the aggregate route(perhaps that part of the address space is
>    unallocated).
>
>      An address prefix is represented as an IPv4 address followed
>      by the character slash "/" followed by an integer in the
>      range from 0 to 32.  The following are valid address
>      prefixes: 128.9.128.5/32, 128.9.0.0/16, 0.0.0.0/0; and the
>      following address prefixes are invalid: 0/0, 128.9/16 since
>      0 or 128.9 are not strings containing four integers.
> </paste2>
> [3]: <https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/>
>
> Maybe it's the only description which contains such
> non-RIPE INRs; other than of RFC 5737 [4]...
> __
> [4]: <https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/>
>
> ...but perhaps someone, from the Staff, should check?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Shalom,
> --sb.
>
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