* Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Gert Doering <gert@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.