[ppml] CIDR support for whois.arin.net / merging whois with rr data?

[Bill Woodcock]

      On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Owen DeLong wrote:
    > The RR is a routing registry.
    > WHOIS is a contact directory.
    > The two serve very different purposes and are related only in that both
    > contain information about network blocks.

Another difference:

The RIR whois contains two sets of data: authoritative assignments and 
allocations, and non-authoritative SWIPped subdelegations.

The IRR whois contains only non-authoritative data, either submitted 
directly, submitted through third parties, mirrored from sites which 
received it directly, or mirrored from sites which received it from third 
parties.

If one's interested in the chain of responsibility backing up the veracity 
of the data, these things are of some interest.

                                -Bill