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RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
From: <michael.dillon () bt com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:30:41 +0100
Come on, let's not get carried away. The problem with the IANA file is that "reserved" is ambiguous and there are other things in there that get in the way of easy parsing. This is easy enough to fix. Geoff Huston wrote a draft suggesting how to do it. Whois, LDAP and other stuff like that only makes things worse because this requires you to walk through the data rather than have it available in a nice, easy to handle text file.
Yes, let's not get carried away. The data is already available in a nice, easy to handle text file for those that simply want to look at a simple listing. But for those who NEED to parse it with automated systems and who NEED to know when things have changed, an IANA whois server is a better solution. Whois has things like Regdate, Updated, and a Comment field which just don't fit in a simple text file. And let's also not get carried away with writing Internet drafts to tell IANA how to fix a problem that they really should be INDEPENDENTLY fixing because it is the right thing to do. I would like to see IANA respond to complaints, but I would not like to see IANA sit on their hands and wait until the IETF discusses and passes an RFC to define what IANA should be doing. Also, my comments about RESTful API, XML-RPC and LDAP were directed at ARIN, not at IANA. --Michael Dillon
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- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Roland Dobbins (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Jim Popovitch (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Sean Donelan (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Chris L. Morrow (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 alex (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Steve Wright (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Leo Vegoda (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 David Conrad (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Jeroen Massar (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Ray Plzak (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Bruce Campbell (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)