On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Joseph T. Klein wrote:
Maintaining delegation information is a pain. Having valid delegation of IP address space helps in tracking the guys with black hats.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to develop a mechanism to limit views of contact information to valid ASN POCs via some form of keyed access ... since those who work in the AS/BGP space need to know who to contact as the source of packet, as apposed to marketing organizations.
Not fair toward the general public. Besides those wearing hats of many colors and marketing interests, there are many legitimate uses of this information. Why hide such data anyway? Imagine the public outcry. Also to be considered are foreign registries (i.e., APNIC), and the data they provide. One may expect consistency... --Mitch NetSide