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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 [email protected] 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
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