[Community-Discuss] Why does AFRINIC continue to violate the court order?

[Frank Habicht]

Hi Owen,

On 16/07/2021 23:28, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss wrote:

>>

>>         As of 12:26 PM Mauritius time, Wed. July 14, 2021:

>>

>>         whois -h whois.afrinic.net <http://whois.afrinic.net/>

>>         154.88.0.0                                                   

>>                                    2021/07/14 1:25:44

>>         [...]

>>

>>         inetnum:        154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255

>>         netname:        CloudInnovation

>>         descr:          CloudInnovation infrastructure

>>         country:        US

>>

>>  

>>  

>>  ...is this not an evidence of a AIR (*American* 

>> Internet Registry) Org rather than a LIR? {or a GIR 

>> (Global Internet Registry)} :-/

> 

> The US Country code was inserted by AFRINIC when they defaced our whois

> records. It is not the original entry, so you will have to ask AFRINIC

> about its meaning and reasoning.

> 


I have downloaded the (anonymised) DB as of June 27th (downloaded on
that day), and I see the same "US" country code in there.

[frank at fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ l
total 123476
drwxrwxr-x.  2 frank frank      4096 Jun 27 17:49 .
drwxr-xr-x. 15 frank root       4096 Jun 27 17:48 ..
-rw-rw-r--.  1 frank frank 126427360 Jun 27 05:08 afrinic.db
[frank at fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ grep -A 5 '154.88.0.0' afrinic.db
inetnum:        154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255
netname:        CloudInnovation
descr:          CloudInnovation infrastructure
country:        US
admin-c:        CIS1-AFRINIC
tech-c:         CIS1-AFRINIC
[frank at fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$


I am assuming "when they defaced" referred to changes in this July ?


[frank at fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net --
--list-versions 154.88.0.0/24
[Querying whois.afrinic.net]
[whois.afrinic.net]
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.
% The AFRINIC whois database is subject to  the following terms of Use.
See https://afrinic.net/whois/terms

% Version history for INETNUM object "154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255"
% You can use "--show-version rev#" to get an exact version of the object.


rev#  Date              Op.

1     2013-08-01 09:54  ADD/UPD
2     2014-05-14 15:10  ADD/UPD
3     2016-04-16 09:48  ADD/UPD
4     2016-05-05 19:25  ADD/UPD
5     2021-07-08 20:23  ADD/UPD
6     2021-07-15 10:08  ADD/UPD



[frank at fisi afrinic_2021-06-27]$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net --
--show-version 4 154.88.0.0/24
[Querying whois.afrinic.net]
[whois.afrinic.net]
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.
% The AFRINIC whois database is subject to  the following terms of Use.
See https://afrinic.net/whois/terms

% Version 4 of object "154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255"
% This version was a UPDATE operation on 2016-05-05 19:25
% You can use "--list-versions" to get a list of versions for an object.

inetnum:        154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255
netname:        CloudInnovation
descr:          CloudInnovation infrastructure
country:        US
admin-c:        CIS1-AFRINIC
tech-c:         CIS1-AFRINIC
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         CIL1-MNT
mnt-routes:     CIL1-MNT
source:         AFRINIC # Filtered


Owen, is my data shown incorrect somewhere?

Thanks,
Frank