small vent

Sun Jun 28 13:35:50 UTC 1998

On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Kim Hubbard wrote:

> > > 
> > > Keep in mind that some of these "clueless folk" may expect individually
> > > assigned CIDRs to be registered accurately, and are complaing to the
> > > registered contact for the block.  If these blocks aren't
> > > registered/SWIPed appropriately, your argument is weak.
> > > 
> > 
> > Wrong.  Most people (clueless or not) only know of Internic and therefore
> > do not look at Ripe or Apnic.  Even when it says in the Internic (now
> > Arin) entry to look at whois.ripe.net for proper delegation, they ignore
> > it since it is one line and not prominent.  ARIN refuses to add comments
> > last time I requested.  The end result is I get about a dozen spam
> > complaints a week from users who are simply complaining to the wrong
> > person.
> >
> ARIN adds comments to the records for RIPE and APNIC, it's not logical
> for us to add comments to every non-US network record when it makes more
> sense to take your record out of ARIN and put it in RIPE's db.  This is
> something the registries are working on.

I await the day!
-Hank

> 
> Kim Hubbard
> ARIN
> 
> > Hank Nussbacher
> > 
> > 
> 

Hank Nussbacher