On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 02:17:35AM +0000, John Levine wrote: > In much the same way, if you do an RDAP query to one of the RIRs, and > the address has been reassigned to another RIR, they do the redirect > and for the client it just works. Not really. Your example describes a convenience mechanism amongst peers. I.e., it goes "sideways". -Peter