[dbwg] WHOIS Change Announcement

[william at elan.net]

Is that my understanding then that you're adding this to ORG table?

Did you check how many organizations are out there that have some ip 
blocks with rwhois and some without it? I bet its 1/2 of those who use 
rwhois if not more - especially considering when companies bought each 
other and then began to transfer under one unified orgid. So how are these 
cases going to be handled? What about when you want one rwhois server for 
one ip block and possibly different for another?

Also for the example below can we change "rwhois://whois.example.net:43/" 
to just "whois://whois.example.net:43/", that would be more appropriate.

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 ginny at arin.net wrote:

> 
> Based on feedback from the most recent DBWG meeting at ARIN XI, ARIN
> staff will make minor modifications to the way organization data is
> displayed in WHOIS. These changes will be released on 16-Jul-2003.
> 
> For organizations with Rwhois servers, ARIN will append an Rwhois
> server information field to the organization information displayed in
> whois. The whois display will place the label "ReferralServer:" and
> its URL value. 
> 
> Acceptable values are:
> 
> ReferralServer: rwhois://192.0.2.11:4321/
> ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.arin.net:4321/
> ReferralServer: rwhois.example.net:4321
> ReferralServer: rwhois://whois.example.com:43/ 
> 
> Invalid values include:
> 
> ReferralServer: rwhois.arin.net
> ReferralServer: http://whois.example.net:80/
> 
> 
> Ginny Listman 
> Director of Engineering 
> ARIN
> 
> 
>