A Problem Statement, identified as "prop-115: Registration of detailed assignment information in whois DB" has been sent to the Policy SIG for review and further discussion, or development by the community.
It will be presented at the Open Policy Meeting at APNIC 39 in Fukuoka, Japan on Thursday, 5 March 2015.
We invite you to review and comment on the proposal on the mailing list before the meeting.
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Regards,
Masato
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Current information in Whois DB does not have enough, detailed record if operator in an network use it for filtering.
To cover this, we propose modification towards whois DB.
1) IPv4 address assignment information has "minimum assignment network space/or declare shared address" and "port number" which for shared address space.