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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I would like to support this initiative and request that it gets
implemented.</p>
<p>Recently we developed a platform for IP Transfers where we
provide a lot of data to our customers to help them do their due
diligence before deciding to make a transfer of IP addresses. We
collect ripe historic whois, apnic and arin whowas among other
sets of data.</p>
<p>We've realized in the past 6 months, since our platform went
live, that a lot of our customers value this information and find
it extremely useful when deciding which IP block they want to
transfer.</p>
<p>However, we can not collect this data for our customer's due
diligence if the resource is deleted (and re-created) due to a
transfer or other events.</p>
<p>So, you have my support to make this data available either
through the current ripe historic whois tool or using a whowas
tool, whether it is public (as APNIC's) or one that requires
registration (as ARIN's).</p>
<p>I can have dozens of customers confirm this is useful data, let
me know if I should contact them and tell them to voice their
opinion on this mailing list or whether my voice is enough at this
time :)<br>
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<p>cheers,</p>
<p>elvis<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/1/20 5:07 AM, ripedenis--- via
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You are mistaken :) The query
string can be a single IP address or CIDR or a range. And the
range doesn't even need to be an exact matching range. So if
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database is:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">it will still return this
database object. As long as the search string is encompassed
by the actual object.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">cheers</div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">denis</div>
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<div> On Thursday, 1 October 2020, 04:42:38 CEST, Ronald F.
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On a related but different point...
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