[96071] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Sun Apr 15 21:43:28 2007
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:41:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B0221C1E@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
> As a result, most people consider William Leibzon and the Bogon project
> to be, collectively, the authoritative source for information on whose
> IP address that is.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If that's the case, all hope has been lost.
> That's because William and the Bogon project, act authoritative, and
> take some pains to provide comprehensive data. At the same time, IANA
> and the RIRs just keep doing the same old thing as their data and
> systems slowly rot away.
> Why doesn't IANA operate a whois server?
Why should they? What will it produce?
> Why don't they publish a more detailled explanation field in each IANA
> allocation record so that they can explain the precise status of each
> block?
Why should they?
> Why doesn't IANA and the RIRs collectively get off their butts and
> actually make an "authoritative IP address allocation directory" one of
> their goals?
>
> And why don't they do all this with some 21st century technology?
Why doesn't vwl help by giving ARIN his changelog, if any?
-alex
