Dear Ronald, On 15/08/2022 12:45, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message <19f8c8b6-0590-8903-0e9e-ec6638d1f442@ripe.net>, Marco Schmidt <mschmidt@ripe.net> wrote:
As Elvis clarified, the examples you listed are the results of resource transfers.
The “netname:” attribute of an INETNUM object in the RIPE Database indicates whether an IPv4 allocation was received directly from the RIPE NCC or via a transfer. Please elaborate. How does it do that exactly? For example, what does this value tell us about how the block was received?
CH-AS5398-20191016 The last part of the netname is the date when the resource was allocated by the RIPE NCC, in this example 16 October 2019.
It includes the date on which that range was provided by the RIPE NCC, also for smaller ranges that are part of a previously bigger range. If the date in the “netname:” and the date on which the object was created differ, you can deduce that the range concerned was not allocated directly by the RIPE NCC. In other words you are saying that 193.222.104.0/23 wasw purchased, correct?
If the dates differ, this only indicates that a change of the resource holder took place, either for this range directly or another part of a previously larger address block. Such change can be a policy transfer, a company merger or a network acquisition. The RIPE NCC is not involved in the financial details of such update. Kind regards, Marco Schmidt RIPE NCC
I hope this helps answer your question. It may, once I understand clearly everything you just said.
Regards, rfg