[dbwg] WHOIS Change Announcement

[ginny listman]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 william at elan.net wrote:

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

It will be an attribute of the org.

> 
> 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?

ARIN surveyed all the technical contacts that were listed where the 
comments indicate an RWhois server. Of those surveyed, the majority 
favored an org attribute over a network attribute. Also associating it 
with the network raised issues of whether we should allow it on various 
network types. We opted to only associate it with the org at this time. 
After a 3-6 month period of implementation, we will once again survey the 
community to determine if a network attribute is still desireable. If it 
is, we will address the necessary questions.

> 
> 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.
> 

Currently ARIN permits either SWIP or RWhois to report utilization. This 
may change in the future, but rwhois is the only schema permitted at this 
time.

Ginny


> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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