[cooperation-wg] publication of data about legacy resources

In message <96C31A09-3BFF-4733-AA62-660722537FA8 at rfc1035.com>, at 
10:28:45 on Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> writes
>On 22 Sep 2014, at 09:44, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>
>> These aren't my questions, they are simply quite reasonable ones
>> which concerned members of the public (or even governments) might ask.
>
>Anyone is free to ask those questions and get more than satisfactory 
>answers Roland.

Sometimes the answers aren't what they'd regard as satisfactory, though.

>As long as there's a clear and transparent mechanism for handling those 
>sorts of queries -- ie who to ask and how to ask them -- all should be 
>well.

Precisely. Most of those questions were about 'governance', which is why 
the mechanisms you mention should be revisited as part of a process of 
recasting IANA's oversight.

>Though I doubt it would help. Those who make those sorts of questions 
>are generally looking for a stick studded with rusty nails to beat any 
>Internet governance body. When they find one stick no longer works, 
>they just move on and find another. Repeat ad nauseam.

That's politics, which you'll never get rid of. Although sometimes real 
engineers want to know is in charge of a block of numbers, and get a bit 
frustrated when the data is so obviously out of date (and hence of no 
use).

>I suppose it might help if there's something which explains that the 
>prime responsibility for maintaining timely and accurate contact data 
>rests with the address holder, not IANA or the RIR. They can intervene 
>when there's a problem.

What does the enquirer do when the holding entity mentioned (eg on 
IANA's list of /8's no longer exists (Like the UK's Department of Social 
Security).
-- 
Roland Perry