[dbwg] Re: WHOIS Modification Part 2 of 2

[ginny listman]

With just a few more days to express your opinion, I thought I'd sum up
what has been said so far.

Method 1: 1 in favor
Method 2: 1 in favor

If no additional comments are received by Friday December 6, we will
proceed to implement method 1. Notification will be via email to this list
and URL listed in the WHOIS banner.

Ginny


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, ginny listman wrote:

>
> A discussion took place during the Database Implementation Working Group
> Meeting at ARIN X in Eugene, Oregon, that networks associated with
> organizations, as well as all autonomous system queries provide a postal
> address for the holding organization. Although under the new system the
> postal address is not an attribute of the resource, this format would
> provide the same information as the old WHOIS. The change in display
> format could be handled by one of the two following methods:
>    1. Provide the postal address for ALL networks/autonomous systems. This
>       could lengthen the output by 2 or 4 lines in most cases.
>    2. Introduce a new flag to be included in the query string that would
>       produce the postal address for these types of queries. The default
>       display would not include postal address.
>
> Prior to implementing these changes, ARIN is soliciting further comments.
> Which methods are preferred? Will it be necessary to provide advanced
> notice before making the change?
>
> If no additional comments are received before December 6, ARIN will begin
> to implement suggestion 1. It should be noted that time of release of this
> change depends upon the method selected.
>
> Ginny Listman
> Director of Engineering
> ARIN
>
>