[144471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Sep 12 13:36:18 2011
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:33:11 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 12/09/2011 17:17, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> You are confusing RPSL (RFC2650) with WHOIS (RFC812,RFC954,RFC3912).
and you are confusing RPSL with RIPE-181 syntax. RIPE-181 and its
grandchildren is a specification for whois information. RPSL is a routing
policy language which uses ripe-181 format. The two are not the same.
> Now, I agree on the part that ARIN should be doing RPSL, or even more,
> just start using the RIPE whois server for serving their data.
Now wait one moment until I bog you down with 20 years worth of legacy
paranoia, "Not Invented Here" and useless history about why this shouldn't
ever have happened...
Nick
