Geoff,
On Nov 13, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Geoff Huston wrote:
This particular /8 allocation is described by IANA as "007/8 Apr
95 IANA - Reserved" in http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-
address-space while a whois query to the ARIN database reveals:
$ whois 7.0.0.0
...
RegDate: 1997-11-24
Updated: 1998-09-26
...
So in this case who is telling the truth? IANA or ARIN?
Well, IANA's registry claims data from 4/95 and ARIN's registry
claims data from 9/98. I know which I would think would be telling
the truth.
Would we want to change whois output to include the 'pub/priv' flag?
or "conflicting data" flag?
Nah. The right answer is to synchronize the data somehow. The data
could either be replicated or a referral could be provided. Not
rocket science.
I think I can state authoritatively (:-)) that the IANA is aware of
(at least some of) the discrepancies and has address registry data
synchronization on its priority list.
Rgds,
-drc
