[Ietf-not43] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-crisp-internet-resource-number-req-00.txt

[Shane Kerr]

Tim Christensen wrote:
> Hi Shane,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> 
>>David Blacka wrote:
>>
>>>A followup question might be: would it be useful for any of the IP searches
>>>to start with a network block identifier, in addition?
>>
>>That's possibly useful.  Unfortunately we don't have (unique) identifiers
>>for network blocks except for the start/end IP.
> 
> 
> Which is not to say that it's not desirable to be able to uniquely
> identify a network block (and indeed, when two networks match, which one
> is the supernet and which one is the subnet).

We do not allow this.  In fact, our schema is backwords.  Our begin/end IP 
are unique, but our network names are not.  :(

Don't blame me, I didn't design the schema.  ;)

> While the query language might not NEED (read: MUST) to permit a unique
> query to that level, for me it is a desired benefit of the protocol that
> it allow such definition and a way to get to it.

It does make sense to allow lookup by handle for any record, IMHO.

-- 
Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC