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

* Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 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.

Did you ever tried to correct wrong entries in the IANA whois?
I did and the entries were fixed (within a period of about a year).
It's certainly possible to have correct data in the IANA server.
OTOH if the problem is serious enough, an IANA review can be triggered.