In a message written on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:58:29AM -0700, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
But Michael is not talking about the registries _contacting_ people with a message about changes in unallocated blocks, he's talking about one specific regional registry providing a list of all unallocated space (that still 'belongs' to IANA/ICANN).
Right. Suggest a way IANA could reasonably notify all the users. I personally don't see one. So, responsible or not, they have no good way to notify people. The registries have a way to notify people. I'm sure these two groups can work together. Maybe ARIN, APNIC, and RIPE can get IANA mail their user mailing lists. Maybe IANA authorizes one (or all) of them to publish a list. That's up to them to work out. Point is, end users don't deal with IANA. They deal with the registries and for those in North America (this is nanog, isn't it) ARIN is it. As the communities desigated represenative to interface with IANA, I feel it is ARIN's duty to collect and distribute information from IANA. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org