[159214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Dec 31 10:55:21 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <71BEAB45-2AC4-4573-BF20-35B6BAB1B119@centergate.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:55:09 -0800
To: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Rodney,
On Dec 31, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com> wrote:
> Two weeks ago RIPE-NCC, who provide the whois data for IP addresses in =
the RIPE region, informed us that based on decisions by their members, =
as of January 1st 2013, tomorrow, they would no longer provide whois =
proxy query response services to GeekTools unless we ponied up $1,800 a =
year for RIPE membership.
...
> I think its wrong to have to pay for whois data that is part of a =
community resource . So I won't do it.
I have to assume there is some sort of misunderstanding here as the =
actions on behalf of RIPE you describe are ... surprising. However, if =
there isn't a misunderstanding then I strongly agree with you.=20
I'll be interested in seeing RIPE's side of the story...
Regards,
-drc
