[159215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Mon Dec 31 11:28:07 2012
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
In-Reply-To: <0C07BC2C-AA0E-4B3A-9BD4-324944B76684@virtualized.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:27:53 -0500
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi David,
On Dec 31, 2012, at 10:55 AM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> Rodney,
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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
>=20
> I'll be interested in seeing RIPE's side of the story=85
I am absolutely open to believing that I have misunderstood. The older =
I've gotten, the dumber I've realized I am ;-)
The references I can provide (besides the notice from RIPE which you =
already have) appear to be:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-558 , specifically 2.4.7 RIPE =
Database Proxy Service
/rlj
