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Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Sinatra)
Sat Sep 17 12:47:03 2011
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:45:18 -0700
From: Michael Sinatra <michael@rancid.berkeley.edu>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
In-Reply-To: <FA2D9593-8682-4CD8-BF3F-5CC62BA893A8@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 09/16/11 08:35, John Curran wrote:
> 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 ?
>>>
>>>> If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please
>>>> feel free to submit it.
>>>
>>> simple. don't.
>>>
>>> if you want to do something new, don't call it whois.
>>>
>>> randy
>>>
>>
>> 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
> the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that
> suffice?
I think this would be a good way to proceed. John, has this been
suggested as part of ASCP and does it need to be? If so, I can do it.
We would also need to understand if there would be any disruption to
users of whois caused by changing the default output back to the
traditional output.
Thanks to Randy and John for turning this into a reasonable discussion.
michael
