[dbwg] WHOIS Modification Part 2 of 2

[Mark Kosters]

I like this enhancement since it will reduce the query load on ARIN's
whois servers. From what I understand, a number of companies scrape  ARIN
whois information for various purposes. With the new format, these
particular companies have to query whois twice - once for the org
that holds the ip address and one more time to retrieve the organizational
postal info. With the enhancement, these people can just run one
query.

BTW, I personally like format #4 the best (with the comments label repeated
for completeness sake).

Mark

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:12:33PM -0500, Cathy Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Shane Kerr wrote:
> 
> > On 2002-11-20 13:55:34 -0500, 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.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand.  While organizations have addresses, networks
> > and ASN's can span large areas.
> >
> > Is the idea to pull the address from the contact and display it with the
> > resource?
> >
> > Shane
> 
> As far as I recall the discussion at ARIN X, the request was for the
> postal address of the resource holder, not that of the contact.  The
> address would be included just after the Org ID, e.g.,
> 
> CURRENT:
> 
>     OrgName:    American Registry for Internet Numbers
>     OrgID:      ARIN
> 
>     NetRange:   192.149.252.0 - 192.149.252.255
>     ...
> 
> PROPOSED:
> 
>     OrgName:    American Registry for Internet Numbers
>     OrgID:      ARIN
>     Address:    3635 Concord Parkway, Suite 200 Chantilly VA 20151
>     Country:    US
> 
>     NetRange:   192.149.252.0 - 192.149.252.255
>     ...
> 
> (The exact format of the address line or lines will depend on the outcome
> of the separate thread of the dbwg.)

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Mark Kosters             markk at netsol.com       Verisign Applied Research