[144654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Sep 16 11:45:46 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:44:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <m2sjnwebrg.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> 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?
>=20
> how to do something new is best discussed by folk who want or need
> something new, the folk with skin in the game. so, though i have an
> opinion that your suggestion seems reasonable at first blush, it is
> worth the pixels on which it is printed.
>=20
> what i care about is pola. please do not change what works and which a
> lot of fingers and scripts rely.
Randy -=20
=20
Can you expand your response some? I'm not certain I understand
whether an option would suffice, nor the pola reference. I do get
that we shouldn't be changing default output upon which scripts
rely.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
