Re: incorporation state of ARIN's asn.txt / LACNIC AS name data

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>]

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Hi nusenu,

thanks for your response.

> out of curiosity: I haven't understood your differentiation between "human-readable" and "technical" AS names.
> Would you mind elaborating on your definitions of human-readable AS names? 

I certainly don't mind, and it's not an accurate definition either. If I may pick an arbitrary example from the
ARIN asn.txt file:

>  7843                    TWC-7843-BB                                        IPADD1-ARIN (Abuse), IPADD1-ARIN (Admin), IPADD1-ARIN (Tech)

So, for AS7843, "TWC-7843-BB" is the name this file supplies to us - which is not very telling. The description
field of the corresponding organisation handle is ("Charter Communications Inc"), but we lack that information
for ARIN and LACNIC space.

This is why I consider asn.txt to contain "technical" names, which are not necessarily suitable for end-user
consumption - although some companies, such as DigitalOcean, do a better job to put meaningful strings in there.

On the second thought, however, this again boils down to a missing full dump of the ARIN database...

> with regards to LACNIC: Maybe their bulk whois data is something you find useful? (I didn't use it myself) 

Thanks for the hint, I was unaware of that possibility. Skimming through the terms of conditions, however, I
somehow doubt this would be suitable, as we

(a) are going to redistribute the data in some way, which LACNIC ToS forbid (based on my humble understanding)
(b) are probably not going to snail mail anything from Europe to Uruguay :-)

@Michael: That is, of course, unless your opinion differs. ;-)

ARIN offers a similar channel (https://www.arin.net/reference/research/bulkwhois/). We would get organisation
handle names from there as well, but it seems to miss country information for suballocations, too (say an AOL
dial-up block assigned to LATAM or similar).

So, at the moment, I see this kind of ambivalent...

> Do you have a rough estimate on when this next version will be released? 

We are not making any guarantees on that front. I am currently short on spare time, but would expect this
to be released within the next couple of weeks.

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller