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As I am Chair of the NRO Executive Council this year, I will speak on behalf of the 5 RIRs regarding this matter. The 5 RIRs and IANA have been engaged in discussions regarding the IPv4 file. We are working together on this. In the process we have been doing a lot of cross checking of the data in the file. Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Conrad > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:03 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 > > > Michael, > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 2:58 PM, <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The world moved on around them but you > > still see things like IANA's non-parseable text file > > The text file is parseable -- we have empirical evidence. Every time > we change the format slightly, people yell at us. > > > At the > > same time, IANA and the RIRs just keep doing the same old thing as > > their > > data and systems slowly rot away. > > Not really. I can't speak to the RIRs, but IANA is working on both > cleaning up the data in all our registries as well as coming up with > an XML-based alternative representation for those registries. > > > Why doesn't IANA operate a whois server? > > We do. The proper question to ask is why isn't our whois server > populated with address information instead of just domain name > information. I don't know the reason historically. However, today, > when the topic was recently raised, concerns were expressed that IANA > would be seen in competition with the RIRs and there are those that > believe IANA (ICANN) should have no "operational" role whatsoever. > With that said, IANA continues to look at adding top level (i.e., /8s > for IPv4) block allocation information to the IANA whois server and > this is something we're discussing with the RIRs -- I don't think > anybody is particularly happy with the current state of affairs. > > > 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? > > What sort of additional information would be helpful? As mentioned > above, we're preparing an XML-based alternative representation of > various IANA registries which would give us a lot more flexibility > than the current text based representation. Feel free to send mail > privately as this might get a bit down in the weeds for NANOG. > > > 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? > > Improving the IANA registries is one of our goals. While I can't > speak to the RIRs, I suspect it is one of their goals as well. > > > And why don't they do all this with some 21st century technology? > > I was wondering when LDAP would show up in this discussion... :-) > > Rgds, > -drc
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