Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-blanchet-weirds-bootstrap-ianaregistries-00.txt

["Linlin Zhou" <[e-mail]>]

> 
> It's perfectly possible to represent the allocation information in a
compact and
> efficiently searchable form (it is, after all, on three pages at IANA),
but not by
> using the formats that the DNS provides.  The number bootstrap data
> changes very rarely, like once a year or less, so it's OK for the update
not to be
> automatic.  Hence the per-TLD DNS lookup for the regularly named but
> frequently updated and uncoordinated DNS registries, and the vague
baked-in
> bootstrap hack for the irregularly named, but rarely updated and well
> coordinated RIRs.
> 
I agree with John. I think it is better to use a local table or file for
numbers bootstrap and update when necessary. We've already adopted this
method.

> Does that make more sense?
> 
> R's,
> John