or you can fix the problem that has been festering for 10+ years.
if arin would clamp down and revoke allocations that had provably wrong/fraudulent whois data, we would probably get 50% IPv4 space back.
without incentives, we have proven it results in no action.
-Dan
if arin would clamp down and revoke allocations that had provably wrong/fraudulent whois data, we would probably get 50% IPv4 space back.
Part of the issue is how hard it is to update ARIN, they gladly take your money but it's like pulling teeth to get anything updated and sometimes you run out of teeth.
I don't know if this is true about apnic, ripe and the others.
Steve -
Suggestions for improvement are welcome; either formally through
the ARIN suggestion process <https://www.arin.net/app/suggestion/>
or directly to me. We're happy to make it easier to you to update
this info, but need to know how you'd like us to do that.
With respect to updating Whois, it is true that many ISPs do not
update their sub-delegations until applying for their next IPv4
block. Whether this is also the case with IPV6 or not remains
to be seen, but given IPv6 allocation size, it would not be good.
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
50%? I'd have estimated 10-15% tops.
I want to personally thank John for taking the time to look at my issue in private conversations. It is not super complex but once we get it resolved I will be more open to talking about it.
APNIC has a web based whois form that is pretty easy to drive.
Jonathon
Yes, but data-entry tools which are viewed as secondary to the task at hand - i.e., address allocations - and which require interactive human participation to perform duplicative input don't tend to scale very well.
APNIC has B2B over email. It should be possible to totally automate
updating APNIC.
http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search/using-whois/updating-whois/objects
That's a much better option than the Web form.