Dear folks, In a draft document sent out last week on representations of IP addresses in the RIPE database there was an invention by us, the classless range. This was in addition to the various notations used in the database currently, and the various classless notations. In the database working group at the RIPE meeting (with small attendance, since the routing working group met at the same time) there were some different ideas on the classless range notation. Some said we should simply use prefix/length notation also for assignments, but this does not allow non bit-aligned blocks registered as one in the database, others suggested some other notations. What I would like to get a feel of is whether you feel that we should allow for a representation that can contain non bit-aligned blocks, and if so how this should be represented in the inetnum object. I would like some discussion and preferably proposals and work from there. This will need to be implemented some day, and also the document should be finalized at some stage, preferably at the same time ripe-81++ is finalized. -Marten PS If you have not seen the document, it is available as: ftp.ripe.net:ripe/drafts/ripe-clarep.{ps,txt} General comments are also welcme, although it seemed that the classless range notation needs some discussion.