[86724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAB and "private" numbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Tue Nov 15 18:08:07 2005
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20051114040619.02c33dc0@kahuna.telstra.net>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
nanog@nanog.org
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:07:30 -0800
To: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Geoff,
On Nov 13, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Geoff Huston wrote:
> This particular /8 allocation is described by IANA as "007/8 Apr
> 95 IANA - Reserved" in http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-
> address-space while a whois query to the ARIN database reveals:
> $ whois 7.0.0.0
> ...
> RegDate: 1997-11-24
> Updated: 1998-09-26
> ...
> So in this case who is telling the truth? IANA or ARIN?
Well, IANA's registry claims data from 4/95 and ARIN's registry
claims data from 9/98. I know which I would think would be telling
the truth.
>> Would we want to change whois output to include the 'pub/priv' flag?
> or "conflicting data" flag?
Nah. The right answer is to synchronize the data somehow. The data
could either be replicated or a referral could be provided. Not
rocket science.
I think I can state authoritatively (:-)) that the IANA is aware of
(at least some of) the discrepancies and has address registry data
synchronization on its priority list.
Rgds,
-drc
