On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > So while I was looking at the WHOIS records for the set of blocks that were > (apparently now past tense) being 'jacked by AS14202 earlier today (Saturday) > I happened to come across the following annotation in one of the relevant > IP block WHOIS records (but _only_ one): > > Comment: The information for this network has been reported to > Comment: be invalid. ARIN has attempted to obtain updated data, but > has > Comment: been unsuccessful. To provide current contact information, > Comment: please e-mail hostmas...@arin.net. > > YESSS! This is exactly the kind of thing I have been asking for! > > But more to the point, this is the exact kind of thing that (very bizzarely) > John Curran just told me that he would accept as, in effect, and enhancement > request... AS IF IT DIDN'T ALREADY EXIST, or as if ARIN wasn't already doing > this exact thing. (See the WHOIS for NET-204-89-0-0-1, which, as we speak, > contains the above helpful annotation.)
While I knew that we were building the list (as required by policy) of netblocks without any valid contact info, I was not aware that the entries would also be nicely annotated in WHOIS as shown above. Congrats, Ron, whatever your favorite holiday is, it comes early this year. /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN
