<p dir="ltr">sent from Google nexus 4<br>
kindly excuse brevity and typos.<br>
On 18 Sep 2014 15:00, "Richard Hill" <<a href="mailto:rhill@hill-a.ch">rhill@hill-a.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Good point. So maybe all that is needed is for the RIRs to publish the<br>
> blocks that are assigned to them, so that it is easy to find out which WHOIS<br>
> to query.<br>
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And you think this is currently not happening or perhaps it needs to be improved?</p>
<p dir="ltr">> Or maybe it would suffice to have an aggregated WHOIS.<br>
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Same comment as above.</p>
<p dir="ltr">> >If the NRO is to take on that role, it<br>
> > will need extra funding and infrastructure. Which will presumably<br>
> > have to come from the RIRs who are already providing the funds<br>
> > and infrastructure which currently supports this function.<br>
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> True. But the RIRs at present do make a financial contribution to ICANN,<br>
> presumably in part to fund the IANA function for the IP addresses.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">But you want them to pay the contribution to IANA instead?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers!<br>
> SNIP<br>
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