[ARIN-Suggestions] New ACSP Suggestion 2011.20: Remove result limit for Whois-RWS child network queries

[ARIN]

A new suggestion was received through the ACSP, and was assigned number  
2012.20 upon receipt of confirmation.

The text of the Suggestion is available at: 
https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-20.html

ARIN will soon issue an initial response.

Regards,

Communications and Member Services

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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Suggestion: Remove result limit for Whois-RWS child network queries


Allow for more than 256 results for a RESTful query of network children 
(e.g. whois SWIPs for a parent netblock).

An example of this issue can be seen at 
http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-69-0-0-0-0/children - I would 
recommend to keep the existing behavior of limiting /children requests 
to only 256 entries (with a warning that the output has been truncated) 
so as not to overload any systems which aren't expecting a large volume 
of output. Provide a flag to allow a query which is not truncated (e.g. 
/children/full) for when the full output is desired.

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