[97277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois and the DoD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Jun 5 16:27:18 2007
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:26:22 +0200
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20070605193702.00aaf668@efes.iucc.ac.il> (Hank
Nussbacher's message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:56:07 +0300")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Hank Nussbacher:
> 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.
For new address space, I agree. I'm not sure if it's worth the
trouble to create a policy for this. Presumably, this is all about
legacy allocations which hardly change, so anyone could compile a
machine-readable list and have them put into the popular clients.
(I assume you mean information such as "this netblock has been given
to that organization", not meaningful WHOIS for sub-allocations.)
