[ARIN-consult] Whois Output Consultation is Now Closed

[Mark Kosters]

Bill,

ARIN has other means of making sure that our RIR records are correct in
cooperation with the other RIRs. There is ongoing work that monitors each
other RIR inventories and making sure there is no over-claiming. In fact,
the RIR's all have consistent reports now to make it easier to detect and
is transparent to the community via the extended statistics reports that
are available on ARIN's website. Using whois for this check is inefficient.

Furthermore, having a client ask ARIN server, get  a referral, then re-ask
the same question to another set of whois servers will require extra work
and systems complexity. Additionally, in order to make this behavior
consistent between RIR's, every RIR will have to setup another set of
whois servers for just their minority space.  Therefore it preferable to
give the answer the first time.

The current resolution of the problem is easy to implement and clears up
confusion that we have today.

Regards,
Mark Kosters
ARIN CTO



On 6/3/13 1:46 PM, "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

>Did I miss the response to
>http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-consult/2013-April/000457.html ?
>
>Without understanding the answer to that question, both variants from
>staff seemed incorrect.
>
>-Bill
>
>On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:10 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
>> The ARIN community consultation on a proposed change to Whois output for
>> certain /8 records is now closed. We thank everyone who voiced their
>> opinion regarding this consultation. Based on feedback received and
>> internal staff deliberation, ARIN's directory services (Whois and
>> Whois-RWS) will be modified to publish only the DA or DS record for an
>> allocation made in a /8 where another RIR manages that particular /8. If
>> there is no corresponding DA or DS record in ARIN's service for that /8,
>> ARIN will publish the /8 of the authoritative RIR and the referral to
>> that particular RIR's directory service.
>>
>> This suggestion will be added to the list of outstanding projects
>> awaiting prioritization found at:
>> https://www.arin.net/features/#tbd
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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