Re: Who has AS 1712?

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> > > 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.

history shows that rirs would rather fight the iana and among themselves
than be equals in the internet community.  how they do not see that this
leads to the itu is beyond me.

> 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.

have the tee shirt.  did not work.  nih is not just a us govt agency.

why we needed to regionalize irs in the first place is lost on me.
fiefdoms.

randy