Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Jun 17, 2016, at 09:03 , David Conrad <drc () virtualized org> wrote:
>
> Owen,
>
> On Jun 17, 2016, at 1:20 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > > On Jun 16, 2016, at 06:03 , Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps it is me and my sensibilities, perhaps it  is my miser corp culture, but i could not even dream of asking 
> > > to go to Jamaica (arin area) for the last ARIN meeting.
> >
> > You are entitled to your opinion.
> >
> > If ARIN didn’t exist, how would you go about guaranteeing unique registered GUA blocks and ASNs? Who would operate 
> > whois and in-addr.arpa, ip6.arpa?
>
> ICANN operates in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa.

Technically you are right, sort of.

ICANN takes the data supplied by the RIRs and compiles it into zone files which are then distributed to servers.

AIUI, most of the servers are hosted and maintained by the RIRs. Most if not all of the zone file information is 
supplied to ICANN by the RIRs.

I stand by my statement to the extent that it is close enough for the purposes for which it was made.

Without the RIR, ICANN’s idea of what should go into ip6.arpa and in-addr.arp would get pretty stale pretty fast. Of 
course, that wouldn’t matter because AIUI, without the servers being supplied, hosted, maintained by the RIRs, it would 
also be fairly invisible as well. But keep those ICANN delusions of grandeur coming.

Owen