On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:57 AM, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote: […]
Ref. Section 5, "comprehensive":
From a "consumer's" point of view, the RIPE NCC Address Registry should return a valid answer about the status of *all* addresses in the IPv4 space.
The answer will necessarily be different, depending on the status of the address block and the authority regarding the answer.
For those addresses, which are authoritatively managed by other RIRs, there should be an indication where to find "better" information. We are already pretty far down that path :-)
The 'user friendly' thing to do is probably to go and find them the end answer, rather than referring them to somewhere else to look up the answer. This is probably particularly important when the query is made by a piece of software that is not aware that it needs to follow a referral. Regards, Leo Vegoda