Re: [apnic-talk] RFC reserved IP blocks in the APNIC WHOIS data base
Dear Ronald, we’ll take a look at this and report back.
Thanks for the notice.
Paul.
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Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC dg@apnic.net
http://www.apnic.net @apnicdg
On 31 Jul 2021, at 18:03, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 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
>
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