On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 06:36:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 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? This issue has been around for over 7 years and I can't understand
> > why the RIRs can't find common ground for the sake of the end users?
>
> s/7/15/ it was already feeling like brickmarks on my forhead at the
> first s'holm ietf in '95
>
> randy
there are solutions, rwhois, iris, etc. some require changed behaviours
from the actors, (why RIPE decided unilaterally to change the
flags/syntax
of whois escapes me at the mo), and some do not.
basically we are stuck w/ things like whois, swip, ad-nausea, due to
simple intertia.
and here is a saving grace... IPv6.
once, abt 8/9 years ago, I was talking w/ Richard Jimmerson about the
wonderful opportunity the RIRs had to build a scalable, extensable
resource
tracking system that could be easily deployed by the RIR clients and
seamlessly
integrated into a heirarchy of resource management segments.
the rational was/is that the RIRs are handing out functionally the
entire
IPv4 address pool to any and all comers. Thats the size of a /32,
presuming
one buys into the /64 chastity belt the IETF has wrapped around the
lower 64
bits.
How is a lowly ISP expected to track/manage address assignments over
such a
huge space w/o decent toolage?
so we can let our collective interia drag us down into increasing chaos
or
we can use this one time chance to pull our collective bacon out of the
fire.
After SIDR - I think development and deployment of this type of thing
would
be a worthwhile use of my RIR fees.
YMMV of course.
--bill
