[cooperation-wg] Principles for a RIPE Proposal on IANA Oversight

In message <GLEAIDJPBJDOLEICCGMNCEPLCKAA.rhill at hill-a.ch>, at 10:44:01 
on Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Richard Hill <rhill at hill-a.ch> writes
>For what concerns IP addresses, IANA at present publishes top level
>information, for example the list of /16 IPv4 allocations at:
>
 > 
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xh
tml>
>
>That list has not always been up to date regarding what happened to the
>legacy (old Class A) allocations.  For example it still lists 16/8 as being
>allocated to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).  But in fact DEC was
>acquired by Compaq some time ago, and Compaq was then acquired by
>Hewlett-Packard (HP), so 16/8 is now allocated to HP.  This is correctly
>shown in the ARIN WHOIS.

Some allocations do get updated though. I note that the IANA entry:

051/8   UK Government Department for Work and Pensions  1994-08

  references a department which didn't exist until 2001.

And originally they had it allocated to the now-defunct Department of 
Social Security.

Therefore I conclude that updates are possible, if there's someone 
sufficiently motivated to follow it through.

Whose role it is to do this, is a good question.

However, if the RIR knows that their information is more up to date than 
IANA's, perhaps the RIR should be pushing it upstream (even if the body 
to whom it's allocated doesn't seem to care about keeping the IANA 
record up to date).

-- 
Roland Perry