[db-wg] running in whios-circles...?

In message <YUIo36HUclTPm/2b at Space.Net>, 
Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

>Ideally, IANA should point to the final RIR right away.

That would certainly be more helpful than the present state of affairs,
within which the IANA WHOIS server is not merely failing to give out
correct referrals, but is actually giving out demonstratably incorrect
referrals.

Functionally and operationally, the portion of the IANA WHOIS service that
provides referrals for IP addresses is, at present, worse than useless
due to the innumerable incorrect referrals it provides.  If IANA does not
wish to correct that, then they should at least configure the thing so that
it will stop providing *any* responses at all when queried about IP addresses.
That way, naive users will not be lulled into the false believe that it
provides correct referrals in response to such queries, only to find out
later on that it often does not.


Regards,
rfg