[97275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois and the DoD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Tue Jun 5 14:03:37 2007
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20070605193702.00aaf668@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:57:03 -0700
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hank,
On Jun 5, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> I have contacted the RIRs and they admit there is a problem here
> that they can't solve.
I'm not sure I understand the problem. Given the US military is in
the ARIN region, why wouldn't the right answer here be "look it up in
ARIN's database and send mail to the listed contact"?
> Based on http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space I would
> assume IANA might be interested in mandating that any organization
> having IP space from them must operate an accessible whois server.
This hasn't been a requirement in the past. In the future, it is
highly likely the IANA registry will be pointing to the RIRs
responsible for the region in which the address space has be assigned.
Rgds,
-drc
