[57547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois for just prefix list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Heilling)
Mon Apr 14 10:41:10 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:38:01 +0100
From: Russell Heilling <russell@ccie.org.uk>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1954JD-000L8K-RE@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:47:43AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> let's see
> o we have massive heavy servers
> o the most basic/frequent operation requires a massive heavy client
>
> what's wrong with this picture?
You've hit the nail on the head there. The lack of a uniform query syntax
across the registries requires intelligence in the client that would
otherwise not be required.
Defining standard query language syntax / information presentation format
across the registries is exactly why the IETF CRISP working group exists.
Lets hope that as a few of their I-Ds get onto the RFC standards track we
can finally get a registry structure that is so easy to use that people
start keeping their objects up to date ;)
--
Russell Heilling
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