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Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Sep 16 11:37:38 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:35:47 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D181DDABABE57E4DB72FEE00331478643C0769@EALPO1.ukbroadband.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
>> Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05
>> To: John Curran
>> Cc: NANOG list
>> Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
>>=20
>>> If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please
>>> feel free to submit it.
>>=20
>> simple. don't.
>>=20
>> if you want to do something new, don't call it whois.
>>=20
>> randy
>>=20
>=20
> Or call it whois and offer the service somewhere else.. Just not in a way=
that breaks everything.
One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain=20
the new hierarchical output No flag =3D no output change. Would that=20
suffice?
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
