[cooperation-wg] publication of data about legacy resources
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Roland Perry
roland at internetpolicyagency.com
Mon Sep 22 11:45:07 CEST 2014
In message <96C31A09-3BFF-4733-AA62-660722537FA8 at rfc1035.com>, at 10:28:45 on Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> writes >On 22 Sep 2014, at 09:44, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote: > >> These aren't my questions, they are simply quite reasonable ones >> which concerned members of the public (or even governments) might ask. > >Anyone is free to ask those questions and get more than satisfactory >answers Roland. Sometimes the answers aren't what they'd regard as satisfactory, though. >As long as there's a clear and transparent mechanism for handling those >sorts of queries -- ie who to ask and how to ask them -- all should be >well. Precisely. Most of those questions were about 'governance', which is why the mechanisms you mention should be revisited as part of a process of recasting IANA's oversight. >Though I doubt it would help. Those who make those sorts of questions >are generally looking for a stick studded with rusty nails to beat any >Internet governance body. When they find one stick no longer works, >they just move on and find another. Repeat ad nauseam. That's politics, which you'll never get rid of. Although sometimes real engineers want to know is in charge of a block of numbers, and get a bit frustrated when the data is so obviously out of date (and hence of no use). >I suppose it might help if there's something which explains that the >prime responsibility for maintaining timely and accurate contact data >rests with the address holder, not IANA or the RIR. They can intervene >when there's a problem. What does the enquirer do when the holding entity mentioned (eg on IANA's list of /8's no longer exists (Like the UK's Department of Social Security). -- Roland Perry
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