[dns-operations] root server address in whois

[Edward Lewis]

Looking into the ARIN, APNIC, and RIPE whois servers, here are there 
registered organizations for the IPv4 addresses in use for the root 
servers.  In the left column are the letter and the operator 
according to www.root-servers.org.

I took the liberty of abbreviating...

root-servers IP address      whois entries

A VeriSign   198.41.0.4      OrgName: VeriSign Infrastructure & Operations
B ISI        192.228.79.201  OrgName: B.Root-Server-OPS
C Cogent     192.33.4.12     OrgName: PSI Inc.
D UMD        128.8.10.90     OrgName: UMD = University of Maryland
E NASA ARC   192.203.230.10  OrgName: NASA
F ISC        192.5.5.241     OrgName: ISC
G U.S. DOD   192.112.36.4    OrgName: U.S. DoD (NIC)
H U.S. Army  128.63.2.53     OrgName: Headquarters, USAAISC
I Autonomica 192.36.148.17   Autonomica
J VeriSign   192.58.128.30   OrgName: VeriSign Global Registry Services
K RIPE-NCC   193.0.14.129    RIPE NCC
L ICANN      199.7.83.42     OrgName: ICANN
M WIDE Proj  202.12.27.33    The University of Tokyo/Info-Tech Center

A  DEFGHIJKL  = seems normal (operator and registered address holder match)
  BC         M = not exact matches

The "mismatch" in C is (maybe) a matter of Cogent not updating 
(transfering) the registrations from PSI when they acquired/merged.

For M - WIDE is a project at the University of Tokyo.

For B - I don't know how to read that.  The whois entry doesn't mention ISI.

It might be that the L-root incident is a one time event.  (For 
whatever little value that point is.)
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Edward Lewis                                                +1-571-434-5468
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