And how do you contact a NOC without whois database to: - contact a sysadmin who is creating BGP instabilities? - contact a domain with an openrelay? - contac

And how do you contact a NOC without whois database to: - contact a sysadmin who is creating BGP instabilities? - contact a domain with an openrelay? - contact the webadmin that is hacked? - contact technician when programs are creating infinite loops by ping ponging bogus messages? ... (see this link as a "story from the trenches: why whois contacts are important": https://archive.icann.org/en/comments-mail/01apr99-30apr99/msg00085.html https://archive.icann.org/en/comments-mail/01apr99-30apr99/m...) How do you check an operator has really the use of the IPv4/v6/AS BGP... resources if you cannot find the contact and correlate with the RIR who allocated? How do you check a set of IP address given to be routed in Europe (for defragmentation purpose of the BGP stream) is indeed routed in Europe without whois? You know all network protocols are far from perfects and don't always detect "infinite loops" and whois database really needs to exists. If you had to deal with serious scale sys/net admin you know why this article is as stupid as "having a national ID is a privacy violation and I don't want alien on my territory". Internet cannot work without all sysadmins communicating together by the means of the contacts given in whois database. Or nanog for the big one in america.