[ARIN-Suggestions] New ACSP Suggestion 2014.12: WHOIS RESPONSE FOR IPV6 UNIQUE LOCAL ADDRESSES FC00::/7

[ARIN]

A new suggestion was received through the ACSP, and was assigned number  
2014.12 upon receipt of confirmation.

The text of the Suggestion is available at: 
https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2014-12.html

ARIN will issue an initial response within 10 business days.

Regards,

Communications and Member Services

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)



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Suggestion: *


Please install a 'whois' entry for IPv6 Unique Local Addresses fc00::/7
When performing this query:
$ whois -h whois.arin.net fc00::/7
. . . the results are:
No match found for fc00::/7.
However, per http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193, that prefix has been 
identified as "Unique Local" addressing. RIPE has registered it accordingly:
$ whois -h whois.ripe.net fc00::/7
<snip>
inet6num: fc00::/7
netname: IANA-BLK
descr: Unique Local Addresses (ULAs)
country: EU # Country is really world wide
org: ORG-IANA1-RIPE
admin-c: IANA1-RIPE
tech-c: RFC1918-RIPE
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
remarks: MNTNER added for RIPE NCC DB Group testing 20121024
More specific objects will be created and deleted
during this testing over the next few days
mnt-lower: aardvark-mnt
remarks: This network should never be routed outside an enterprise
remarks: See RFC4193 for further information
status: ALLOCATED-BY-RIR
remarks: This network in not allocated.

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