Hi DB-WG, Apologies if this has been discussed before; I recently transferred my personal ASN from RIPE to ARIN. One of the side effects of this, is that the IANA whois, has a referral to RIPE for the entire block of ASNs that my ASN was part of, but of course, the RIPE whois now returns a message stating that the ASN is no longer in the RIPE region, and lists out the other RIRs - but no hints into which one is now responsible (Certainly not so a machine can follow along) - below is the output; refer: whois.ripe.net as-block: 34816-35839 organisation: Assigned by RIPE NCC whois: whois.ripe.net descr: Assigned by RIPE NCC changed: 2005-02 source: IANA # whois.ripe.net as-block: AS35008 - AS35008 descr: ASN block not managed by the RIPE NCC remarks: ------------------------------------------------------ remarks: remarks: aut-num objects within this block represent routing remarks: policy published in the RIPE Database remarks: remarks: For registration information, remarks: you can find the whois server to query, or the remarks: IANA registry to query on this web page: remarks: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space remarks: remarks: You can access databases of other RIR's at: remarks: remarks: AFRINIC (Africa) remarks: http://www.afrinic.net/ whois.afrinic.net remarks: remarks: APNIC (Asia Pacific) remarks: http://www.apnic.net/ whois.apnic.net remarks: remarks: ARIN (Northern America) remarks: http://www.arin.net/ whois.arin.net remarks: remarks: LACNIC (Latin America and the Carribean) remarks: http://www.lacnic.net/ whois.lacnic.net remarks: remarks: ------------------------------------------------------ mnt-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT created: 2023-06-30T06:35:17Z last-modified: 2023-06-30T06:35:17Z source: RIPE Would it make sense, for the RIPE whois to also include a refer entry, much like that of the IANA whois? In my case, this could be a refer: whois.arin.net entry, in the hope that the whois client follows along and gets the correct record. Of course, the ultimate solution here would be IANA putting a record for the absolute ASN into their data, and sending the whois client along to the now correct whois server. Cheers, --Lee