[190265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jun 20 19:04:04 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1386CA32-47B7-4D7D-B78F-AE208A5C9DD4@virtualized.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:03:54 -0700
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jun 17, 2016, at 09:03 , David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
>=20
> Owen,
>=20
> On Jun 17, 2016, at 1:20 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>>> On Jun 16, 2016, at 06:03 , Ca By <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Perhaps it is me and my sensibilities, perhaps it is my miser corp =
culture, but i could not even dream of asking to go to Jamaica (arin =
area) for the last ARIN meeting.
>>=20
>> You are entitled to your opinion.
>>=20
>> If ARIN didn=E2=80=99t exist, how would you go about guaranteeing =
unique registered GUA blocks and ASNs? Who would operate whois and =
in-addr.arpa, ip6.arpa?
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> ICANN operates in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa.
Technically you are right, sort of.
ICANN takes the data supplied by the RIRs and compiles it into zone =
files which are then distributed to servers.
AIUI, most of the servers are hosted and maintained by the RIRs. Most if =
not all of the zone file information is supplied to ICANN by the RIRs.
I stand by my statement to the extent that it is close enough for the =
purposes for which it was made.
Without the RIR, ICANN=E2=80=99s idea of what should go into ip6.arpa =
and in-addr.arp would get pretty stale pretty fast. Of course, that =
wouldn=E2=80=99t matter because AIUI, without the servers being =
supplied, hosted, maintained by the RIRs, it would also be fairly =
invisible as well. But keep those ICANN delusions of grandeur coming.
Owen
