On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Roland Perry <roland@internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

>Indeed. But it is not up to the RIRs or anyone else who contributes money to (part) fund IANA to define what services IANA provides. At least
>not yet. Maybe that'll change if/when the DoC contract goes away.

The only service IANA needs to provide here is updating a very small
number of entries comprising the /8 allocation records, when the need
arises.

I think the point here is that IANA no longer assign to orgs(and somewhat transferred initial legacy spaces maintenance to RIR) and since they now only assign to RIRs the records already reflects the relevant assignments. If there is any regular update that is required, it will/should be at the RIR level because there is apparently no major changes that will happen at /8 level. [1]

Also note I'm not suggesting the records for 51/8 are still out of date,
or need any maintenance.

Nor am I suggesting that the same ideas be applied to legacy blocks
smaller than a /8, because that doesn't seem to me to be anything to do
with "IANA oversight".

This seem to negate your call for IANA to update its records; because i think your scenario above would have been a good example. Nevertheless, i also agree that "how IANA maintain whois record is definitely not within the IANA oversight scope" but rather an operation/policy issue. (though it doesn't hurt discussing it for all its worth)

Regards

1. Speaking about who maintains legacy spaces, it may be good to note that its been raised by region members why its not "just" to maintain legacy spaces with paying members money.

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Roland Perry

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