[consult] Call for Consultation: ARIN WHOIS Directory Services

[Heather Schiller]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Edward Lewis wrote:

> At 9:09 -0700 7/26/07, David Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:09:25PM +0000, Heather Schiller wrote:
>>>  I support the existing suggestions of:
>>>    -support for CIDR queries
>
> BTW, as this was the original question of the consultation, I support this 
> addition.
>
>>>  -Clearly Mark Early Registration records with ERX as RIPE does - and
>>>  remove the ERX marking when a resource is brought uptodate/under RSA
>> 
>> Yes, please.  This one seems pretty easy, frankly.
>
> I asked for this on PPML before:
>   http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-March/006085.html
> Got no takers...
>
> ..so, yes, I would actively support that suggestion.
>
>>>  -Be able to enter a POC handle and get a listing of the resources where
>>>  that POC handle is a contact.
>> 
>> I'm always surprised when this doesn't work - please make this another top
>> priority.
>
> As much as I can see that being a desire, and I've tried to use it too, it 
> shouldn't be easy to scan any company's (POC's) resources.
>

I can already get your company's POC's by searching @neustar.biz

BARNES, WALTER  (WBA2-ARIN)     walter.barnes at neustar.biz +1-571-434-5797
Chatfield, Terrence  (TC565-ARIN)     terry.chatfield at neustar.biz 
+1-571-434-5627
Network Engineering  (NETWO336-ARIN)     wan.engineering at neustar.biz 
+1-866-638-6622


and I can get a list of what your potential resources are by searching 
neustar* ..and I would have to walk through each one to find which 
WBA2-ARIN is the POC for.

What I am asking is that this be consolidated into one step, to be able to 
search something like !> WBA2-ARIN and get a list of the resources that 
WBA2-ARIN is a POC for.

True today, I can email ARIN and ask for the info.  I (Verizon Business) 
have a ton of records and POC's listed.. I haven't endeavored on a project 
to ensure they are all up to date, because for each one I will have to 
email ARIN and ask them to provide a list of the resources associated to 
each POC, making it a large project.  While ARIN helpdesk would be more 
than happy to provide this info, I'm much more likely to do something 
about it if I can clean them up as I find them, and get an answer in 5 
seconds as opposed to a few hours or even a day ... my attention span is 
just that short.



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