RWHOIS Update

[Mark Kosters]

Ginny

Techincally, I think ARIN can best help its members use RWHOIS is to provide 
RWHOIS with a better backend that allows for an easier way for members to 
maintain their own data. mkdb is way too complicated for most people to use.
Additionally on the support side, it would be helpful if howtos and 
registration interfaces where clearly documented and supported for people to 
link in their servers. Since the documentation is lacking, there are lots of 
howto questions on the rwhois mailing list from those members who setup
their servers. I feel their pain.

Mark

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:36:08AM -0400, 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.