* Hank Nussbacher: > Based on http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space I would > assume IANA might be interested in mandating that any organization > having IP space from them must operate an accessible whois server.
For new address space, I agree. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble to create a policy for this. Presumably, this is all about legacy allocations which hardly change, so anyone could compile a machine-readable list and have them put into the popular clients. (I assume you mean information such as "this netblock has been given to that organization", not meaningful WHOIS for sub-allocations.)