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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Good point, let me rephrase.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The original email referred to embedding some comms in the whois results, but was light on the details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What strategies/approaches has ARIN come up with so far, for reaching the port-43 user base regarding retirement (or even just changes)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m hoping, although not necessarily expecting
<i>yet</i>, that you have a more concrete answer than the opening email’s vague ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">-Adam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F5587">Adam Thompson</span></b><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F5587"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 31, 2026 11:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Adam Thompson <athompson@merlin.mb.ca><br>
<b>Cc:</b> arin-consult@arin.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on the Future of ARIN’s Directory Services (Updated)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 31, 2026, at 11:37<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM, Adam Thompson <<a href="mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca">athompson@merlin.mb.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Per my previous comment, I think it would be very useful to see the query type breakdown - my suspicion is that 99+% of all queries are "simple" bare-word queries, and that
could potentially be re-implemented with a fairly simple wrapper without a massive effort.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Adam - <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ll work on getting such statistics collected and posted here.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">John et al. - please elaborate further on how, exactly, you plan to communicate the upcoming shutdown to port 43 users.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There’s some confusion here, since this is a consultation and I work for you… i.e. the question is really back to you: “If this were to proceed, then how exactly would you like ARIN to communicate an upcoming shutdown to port 43 users?”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Curran<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">President and CEO<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">American Registry for Internet Numbers<o:p></o:p></p>
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