Re: whois broke again?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> > > > >      delegation glue ?
> > >
> > >         and how/where did you get your AS & delegation?
>
>   Public viewable data will have no verification,
> and ARIN/NSI/JPNIC/ETC will be in the critical path
> for timely resolution of said corrected data. 
>
> [Seriously -Pregnant- Pause]

        ok,  ICANN delegates 64.0.0.0/8 to ARIN.
        ARIN delegates 64.64.0.0/16 to BillsBait&Sushi
        BBS delegates 64.64.0.0/20 to OnCall
        OnCall delegates 64.64.0.0/24 to AviFreedman

There is a DNS inverse delegation at every point (granted w/o verification
today) where each site publishes a zone file. There is a chain of custody
at each delegation point.  The owner of each zone may choose to publish
relevent data in the zone(s) they control.  ARIN has near zero leverage
on OnCall for the delegations it makes to Avi. OnCall however does have
leverage since there is an existing business relationship w/ Avi.
This whole thing gets much tighter when/if we can get DNSSEC deployed 
at least in the inverse tree.

Yes there are interesting scoping issues.  Yes there are concerns wrt 
evil people and tolerent applications. But this tactic clearly puts the
onus on the people in control of the useage, not some centralized repository.


YMMV.

--bill