On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> wrote:
Indeed. There's a reason each county only has one deed registry, you know.
Right - which argues that there should be exactly one worldwide registry of IP address titles, not five, not fifty.
not exactly "titles", but what you seek is here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
There is no reason why the tasks of allocation of new IP address blocks, the brokerage of used blocks, and the keeping of the big book of block ownership need to be locked together.
There is no reason IMHO to have "brokerage" at all. I think the reason to have allocation and assignment (not ownership, pls!) info together is for simplicity. John (downthread) is complaining about having five Dbs to search. BTW the -a flag will search all mirrored Dbs (not just the RIRs) whois -a -h whois.rirname.net 1.2.3.4 for example.
It is easy to conceive of things like the RIRs doing allocations and sending reports of their grants to the singular recorder of titles. Same for the brokers.
It would be entirely consistent with ICANN's role to establish that kind of IP address title registry.
Would this not be the IANA? -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel