Re: Who has AS 1712?

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Nov 25, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> At 08:57 25/11/2009 +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> > shouting.  This is all water under the bridge of course and we are
> > moving on;
> > I do not say everything is ideal now.  However the RIRs are actively
> > working to publish a complete set of stats files which also includes
> > unallocated resources.

I would've thought IANA would be responsible for unallocated resources.
 
> > This is the next best thing to full database
> > synchronisation. APNIC and the RIPE NCC are driving this effort.
>
> Perhaps the RIRs could get together and agree on a common whois syntax so that when I check one RIR with one syntax - 
> it would work on others as well?  

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4698.txt

More seriously, the theory is that the RIRs are bottom-up driven.  If you think a unified whois schema across all RIRs 
(or even IRIS deployment) would be a good thing to have, there are likely better venues to raise the issue than NANOG.

Regards,
-drc