RWHOIS Update

[Linda]

Good Morning Teddy,

> > My questions to the community are:
> >
> > 1. Is RWHOIS an option for your company to replace SWIP?

The question listed above was a question given to the community by Ginny Listman.
RWHOIS is not an option for our company to replace SWIP.  We use Shared WHOIS
Project (SWIP) to submit IP space reassignment information to the WHOIS database.
We do not plan on establishing a Referral WHOIS (RWHOIS) server.  The information
listed below is an excerpt from the swipinstructions.txt which can be found on the
ARIN web site.  ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/swip/swipinstruction.txt

Please let me know if this does not clarify what I meant by  my prior statement.

SWIP is the process that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use to submit customer
IP space reassignment information to the WHOIS database.

ISPs that receive CIDR blocks of IP addresses from ARIN either directly or
indirectly (as a downstream customer of another ISP) MUST select either SWIP or
RWHOIS to provide reassignment information to ARIN.

SWIP automates the IP address space assignment process.  ISPs use SWIP
templates to submit reassignment to ARIN via E-mail.

Regards,
Linda


"Teddy A. PURWADI" wrote:

> Linda,
>
> I don't understand what do you mean by this.
> IMHO: RWHOIS nothing to do with your system.
>          Please corrected me, if it is wrong.
> Regards,
> -teddy
>
> At 08:50 AM 10/1/01 -0400, Linda wrote:
> >Good Morning,
> >
> >Satellite Communication Systems does not plan on downloading the RWHOIS.  We
> >as well as our customers solely use SWIP.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Linda
> >
> >ginny listman wrote:
> >
> > > At the ARIN Open Policy and Member Meeting in San Francisco (2-4 Apr 2001)
> > > there was consensus that RWHOIS was in dire need of repair.  This echoed
> > > similar sentiments that had been raised on various mail lists.  In
> > > response to this desire, work begun on "fixing" RWHOIS.
> > >
> > > On September 6, ARIN's Engineering Department announced the release of a
> > > beta version of the RWHOIS software.  Details are at:
> > >
> > >     http://www.arin.net/mailinglist/dbwg/0153.html
> > >
> > > Since that time, there has been approximately 30 downloads from our ftp
> > > site.  I have receive only one comment from someone who had problems
> > > compiling the software.
> > >
> > > My questions to the community are:
> > >
> > > 1. Is RWHOIS an option for your company to replace SWIP?
> > > 2. If you haven't download it yet, do you plan on downloading at a later
> > > time?  Are you busy establishing a test site?
> > > 3. If you have downloaded it, have you done any testing?  Have you found
> > > any bugs?  Can you make any recommendations for improvement?
> > > 4. Is investing in RWHOIS development a good allocation of ARIN
> > > Engineering resources?
> > >
> > > These issues will be discussed at the ARIN Member Meeting scheduled for
> > > late October in Miami.  However, discussing these questions now will help
> > > facilitate that discussion.  Please send all responses to dbwg at arin.net.
> > >
> > > Ginny Listman
> > > Director of Engineering
> > > American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
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