[apnic-talk] RFC reserved IP blocks in the APNIC WHOIS data base

["Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>]

APNIC Hostmaster,

The following two IP address blocks are reserved as per RFC 5737,
Section 3:

    198.51.100.0/24
    203.0.113.0/24

As per RFC 5737, Section 3, these two blocks do not belong to any
specific or particular Regional Internet Registry, nor should they
be assigned to any individual or particular resource member of any
particular RIR.  Both blocks are effectively reserved by IANA, based
on RFC 5737, and that fact is reflected in the NRO's daily stats file,
where these blocks are quite clearly assigned to and associated with
IANA:

    iana|ZZ|ipv4|198.51.100.0|256|20090714|reserved|ietf|iana
    iana|ZZ|ipv4|203.0.113.0|256|20090714|reserved|ietf|iana

Nontheless, these two blocks are also incorrectly mentioned in APNIC's own
daily stats file, where they are incorrectly represented as allocations
under the administration of APNIC:

    apnic||ipv4|198.51.100.0|256||reserved|
    apnic||ipv4|203.0.113.0|256||reserved|

Please remove all references to these two RFC-reserved IPv4 address blocks
from both the APNIC WHOIS data base and also from the APNIC daily stats
file.  All such mentions of either block in APNIC-specific data bases or
data files are invalid and are in direct conflict with NRO/IANA supplied
information as noted above.


Regards,
rfg