[ARIN-consult] Fwd: [ARIN-Suggestions] NEW ACSP 2018.3: Automatically Redirect Whois Queries to Secure URL

[Job Snijders]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 at 18:38, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> I’m actually opposed to this.
>
> First, whois lookups are a query against a public database. All
> information in the
> database is currently public, so there is no possibility that the content
> of a whois
> lookup is sensitive other than, perhaps, the person sending the query
> wishes their
> query to be unknown. In that case, the person sending the query is fully
> empowered
> to choose https if desired.
>
> There is no reason to add SSL overhead to all queries just because.
>



This overhead you speak of is negligible.

TLS designed to help against eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.
All of which are desirable qualities in context of querying a service. ARIN
should just implement this.

Kind regards,

Job

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