[arin-discuss] IPv6 and ARIN route registry

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Steve Bertrand <steve at ibctech.ca> writes:

> Update FAILED: [unknown object]
> ...
> route6: 2607:f118::/32
> mnt-by:        MNT-EAGLE-28
> *ERROR*:       unknown object type

Well, that's just fascinating.  It was suggested privately by one
person that we ought to be using an inet6num instead of a route6.
Clearly that's in error, though, since the union of all irr components
mirrored at ftp://ftp.radb.net/radb/dbase/ yields a grand total of
four inet6num objects, as opposed to 476 route6es.

Supposedly IPv6 objects in the ARIN database are now supported, as of
2006.  http://osdir.com/ml/operators.ipv6/2006-06/msg00073.html

On a related note, I see no aut-num objects with 32-bit ASNs in them,
unless I'm doing something wrong.  APNIC has some in ASDOT format.

Is it perhaps time to shake the dust off the ARIN IRR codebase?

-r