* Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Gert Doering <[email protected]> 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.
