[dbwg] Portable/non-portable flags gone?

[ginny listman]

Joe,

I ran some queries against the database. There are currently 5293 network
records that have a public comment with the words "NON-PORTABLE" embedded.
I ran the same query against the database as of conversion. There were
3542. Do you have a specific network that we can research?

Ginny

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Joe Provo wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:50:39PM -0400, ginny listman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Joe Provo wrote:
> > >
> > > Seems that in the change over to the new format, "non-portable" flags
> > > got dropped, munged or changed to non-displaying.  Everything I check
> > > that 'should' have the modern equivalent of the old "ADDRESSES WITHIN
> > > THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE" don't have anything in the only space
> > > I'd expect something ("Comment:"). Recent allocations do appear to
> > > properly be tagge; is ARIN going to true up with old data or do
> > > delegaees need to re-file portability status with ARIN?
> >
> > You have found a bug in the registration software. This bug has also been
> > reported by someone from Telus. We have corrected the bug and are working
> > on correcting any records for templates that were processed prior to the
> > fix. You should see the corrected record in tomorrow's WHOIS.
>
> "Tomorrow never comes".
>
> I presume ARIN has the old data somewhere and there actually is interest
> in correcting this problem? Seems it would be easier to translate the
> old data than deal with a flood of re-filed requests.
>
> Any timeframe?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joe
>
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