When the registry cannot be read: DFINFRA, AS210860 and the broken verification chain

Summary

• AS210860 has announced zero prefixes to the global routing table since 26 March 2026, per Hurricane Electric [https://bgp.he.net/AS210860], RIPEstat (snapshot dated 14 September 2026) [https://stat.ripe.net/AS210860] and CIDR Report's independent "NOT Announced" classification [https://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS210860&view=2.0]. No observable routing change has occurred since BTW's 26 September–1 October 2026 coverage [https://btw.media/en/governance/rir-watchdog/ripe-ncc/story/dfinfra-as210860-registered-layer-frozen-as197909-routes-edeka-15].
• The 1996 legacy block 193.20.0.0/15 (DE-EDEKA-19960717) remains routed live and RPKI-valid solely by AS197909 (EDEKA-RS, EDEKA Rechenzentrum Sued Betriebs GmbH), with a single exact-match covering ROA (max_length 15), no MOAS ambiguity, and 559 observing peers (100%) with valid ROA and route-object across 1 July–1 October 2026 per Qrator [https://records.ping.pe/193.20.0.0/15] [https://radar.qrator.net/as/197909/connectivity/prefixes] [https://canon.whisper.security/prefix/193.20.0.0/15].
• The verification chain above these routing facts is broken. The authoritative RIPE Database lookup for role DA9499-RIPE — the DFINFRA handle that administers AS210860 — returned only an interface shell with no readable object attributes in this run [https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?key=DA9499-RIPE&type=role], so every registry-object value rests on dated third-party mirrors that contradict each other.
• Those contradictions are concrete and dated: IPIP.NET renders ORG-EDG14-RIPE as "EDEKA Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH" (Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 90516) with last-modified 2026-05-13 [https://whois.ipip.net/AS210860], while ip.cc renders the same organisation object as "EDEKA DIGITAL GmbH" with last-modified 2021-10-27 [https://ip.cc/topic/asn/AS210860/]. Hurricane Electric's own AS210860 page carries the former name in its title while its prefix description still reads the latter [https://bgp.he.net/AS210860].
• RIPEstat renders AS210860's RIR status as RESERVED with no registration and no holder [https://stat.ripe.net/AS210860], against mirrors showing ASSIGNED with ORG-EDG14-RIPE — an unresolved conflict between two classes of provider rendering the same RIPE authority data.
• Even the operational layer's accounting diverges: the main Hurricane Electric page for AS197909 lists 9 originated prefixes (4 IPv4, 5 IPv6, all RPKI-valid, aut-num last-modified 2026-06-25) [https://bgp.he.net/AS197909], its IPv4 mirror lists 7 prefixes with a 2025-05-06 last-modified [https://ipv4.bgp.he.net/AS197909], and bgp.tools lists 3 IPv4 and 4 IPv6 prefixes with a page stamp of 3 March 2026 and omits the /15 entirely [https://bgp.tools/as/197909].
• A PeeringDB-derived record still self-declares 10 IPv4 prefixes, 1 IPv6 prefix and an open peering policy for the network, contradicting every routing observer [https://btw.media/en/governance/rir-watchdog/ripe-ncc/story/dfinfra-as210860-registered-layer-frozen-as197909-routes-edeka-15]. Self-declaration and observation have been allowed to coexist unresolved.

The two planes must be kept apart. The routing plane is independently observable: multiple collectors agree that AS210860 is silent and that AS197909 alone, RPKI-valid, originates the legacy /15. The registry plane, by contrast, is currently unreadable at its authoritative source and internally contradictory in every mirror layer below it. This report therefore treats routing observations as the strongest available evidence, attributes every registry value to a dated named mirror, and presents the conflicts as unresolved rather than adjudicating between them.

Additional sources consulted in this reporting pass: [https://btw.media/en/dfinfra-as210860-mirror-layer-self-contradiction] [https://btw.media/en/dfinfra-as210860-state-difference-september-2026] [https://hostdir.net/networks/as210860-edeka-digital] [https://rpki-validator.ripe.net/ui/] [https://www.northdata.de/EDEKA%20Verwaltungs-%20und%20Beteiligungs%20GmbH,%20Hamburg/HRB%2090516] [https://www.online-handelsregister.de/handelsregisterauszug/hh/Hamburg/HRB/90516/EDEKA-Verwaltungs-und-Beteiligungs-GmbH].