FW: RWHOIS

[Richard Jimmerson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net]On 
> Behalf Of Mark
> Kosters
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 3:11 PM
> To: Shane Kerr
> Cc: Muir, Ronald; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: RWHOIS
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:55:45PM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> > The new RIPE Whois server, in production since April 23, is Much
> > Improved(tm).  Currently it only supports referrals for 
> several types of
> > records - network allocations (inetnum) are not among them. 
>  It would
> > probably be a lot less work to add this capability than to 
> maintain two
> > seperate database interfaces.  Perhaps ARIN should pursue 
> this as a goal
> > instead of taking on maintaining RWhois?  After all, the RIPE Whois
> > server is very actively maintained.  ;)
> 
> I'm glad to hear that RIPE has improved their database.
> 
> Personally, I'd like to see the data distributed and not reliant on
> a box (or boxes) that have to chase referrals for the 
> distributed info to
> send back to the client.  We do this at the Verisign 
> registrar for the 
> gtld whois stuff and it is non-trivial.  Resources to do this 
> at fairly high 
> volume rates is pretty expensive. 
> 
> Work is on-going to replace this creaky system. I hate to see 
> ARIN follow
> this model and caught a couple of years from now with volumes 
> that they
> may not want to be able to sustain*.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
> 
> *there have been proposals from various types of vendors to 
> use the whois 
> data from ARIN et al to improve their services (legit ones - 
> not spammers). 
> Someday they may do so. I hope that we can create the right sort of 
> infrastucture to make it happen without a lot of pain.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark Kosters             markk at netsol.com       Verisign 
> Applied Research
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