[cooperation-wg] publication of data about legacy resources

On 9/22/2014 8:25 AM, Jim Reid wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2014, at 16:07, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
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>> as far as I was aware, this is the entire point of a RIR - to ensure accurate registration details of address holders.  Did I miss something?
> Well the discussion seems to be about a handful of legacy /8s where IANA holds the registration details, not an RIR.
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> Unless I'm more confused than usual, the accuracy of the registration details for 51/8 (say) are not a matter for RIPE or the NCC. Maybe they should be. But that's another discussion altogether. Probably.
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> BTW, that /8 has never been routed on the Internet (bogus announcements excepted) and probably never will be. That's why I'm so doubtful if it matters operationally what the name of the organisation holding that space happens to be this week. After all, it's not as if one of the biggest departments of Her Majesty's Government is well hidden. YMMV.
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Perhaps the better question to ask is if the Internet community wants to
keep the organizational names in the /8 IANA records or if that
information should just be moved to the RIRs and the /8 records should
be updated to reflect the RIR which is managing the /8 record.  (I
personally think it would probably be better to just move the ORG
records to the RIRs)

If we don't really want the organizational record in the IANA registry
any more for the /8s, then we should instruct IANA to update the records
in a way the community desires. 

Andrew