On Nov 25, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > At 08:57 25/11/2009 +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: >> shouting. This is all water under the bridge of course and we are >> moving on; >> I do not say everything is ideal now. However the RIRs are actively >> working to publish a complete set of stats files which also includes >> unallocated resources.
I would've thought IANA would be responsible for unallocated resources. >> This is the next best thing to full database >> synchronisation. APNIC and the RIPE NCC are driving this effort. > > Perhaps the RIRs could get together and agree on a common whois syntax so > that when I check one RIR with one syntax - it would work on others as well? http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4698.txt More seriously, the theory is that the RIRs are bottom-up driven. If you think a unified whois schema across all RIRs (or even IRIS deployment) would be a good thing to have, there are likely better venues to raise the issue than NANOG. Regards, -drc
