[hostmaster-staff] Re: Maintaining IPs in LIRs/Enterprise LIRs

Thanks David

I think APNIC's members would also be very happy to see this IP
management tool.

Regards,
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Neil Anderson Saunders wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We would be very interested to see an IP management tool like this. I
> think there is a large interest in the community for this.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Neil
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> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, David R Huberman wrote:
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> >
> > > I am currently in search for a tool which will help a LIR to maintain
> > > its IP addresses - currently everything is listed inside an Excel file,
> > > which is, IMHO, a very limited way of maintaining the lists.
> >
> > Global Crossing uses a complex but powerful home-grown IP database system
> > which, when coupled with an interface for requesting address space,
> > suffices for our needs. The database very cleanly aggregates and
> > de-aggregates blocks on the fly, tracks user information and customer
> > numbers, can prioritize and de-prioritize blocks for assignment, and can
> > report utilization statistics on an as-requested basis. Everything is
> > written in perl.
> >
> > If there is interest, we can publish these tools as freeware/open source
> > for the RIPE LIR community to use.
> >
> > /david
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