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Re: Need RWhois help.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Mon Mar 15 14:01:20 1999

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:55:06 -0500
To: steve rader <rader@teak.wiscnet.net>
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199903111702.LAA19798@teak.wiscnet.net>

At 11:02 3/11/99 -0600, steve rader wrote:
>
> > From: Dean Robb
> > NSI is *supposed* to be spearheading the RWhoIs effort, they *should* be
> > helpful.
>
>Huh?  Perhaps you are confusing rwhois with whois?

Nope.  See http://rs.internic.net/nsf/review/section6.html .  It was one of
the project they were *supposed* to complete under their contract with the
NSF.  

>So rwhois has degenerated into little more than a mechanism
>for convincing ARIN to dole out address space, imo.

Very probably because of the lack of effort put forth by NSI in developing
it. 



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