[144704] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Fri Sep 16 20:43:20 2011
In-Reply-To: <FE44BC89-E416-4B28-83A9-58E1A9350C96@arin.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:43:15 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:53 AM, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> Randy -
> =A0Over the last decade, we've run multiple consultations with the
While I appreciate that ARIN has had community consultations...
It needs to be understood that the WHOIS service is a critical service
that many people rely upon, and many people/organizations have developed
tools and internal processes that work with the WHOIS service and rely on i=
t
continuing to operate in the manner it has operated in the past.
There may be no RFC specifying the exact contents of the WHOIS output and
the query syntax, but these are de-facto standards and should not be change=
d
without a great deal of care.
Many stakeholders are unlikely to be well-represented in the consultation
process.
ARIN should acknowledge this fact, and therefore ensure that any changes
suggested do not break or significantly alter the standard behavior
and operation
of WHOIS, when a WHOIS user is not issuing a query specifically asking to
utilize a new feature or format.
When new changes are being proposed they should be operated on a separate W=
HOIS
system in parallel.
The community consultation process should not merely be "take this
list of suggestions",
there should be ACCEPTANCE TESTING and approval by the community of the f=
inal
result.
Regards,
--
-JH
