[dbwg] WHOIS Change Announcement

[Dave Diller]

> ReferralServer: rwhois://192.0.2.11:4321/
> ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.arin.net:4321/
> ReferralServer: rwhois.example.net:4321
> ReferralServer: rwhois://whois.example.com:43/ 


Hey Ginny,

How will output on a netblock appear?  Will this appear as "OrgReferralServer" 
in much the same way that an AbuseHandle for the ORG shows up an an 
OrgAbuseHandle?  This would seem to be the simplest way, even though it 
effectively highlights Wm's point about having a ReferralServer listed on a 
block that may not be using RWHOIS (non-issue for me)

But is that truly even a technical issue?  It strikes me mostly as an issue 
from a clarity perspective.  If you do a whois on a block, and get back the 
standard output with (NET-AA-BB-CC-DD-1) for the assignee, then the tool should 
do a second whois on that to get the name of the company using the block. 
It'll be odd if this output has the OrgReferral attribute in it as I am 
assuming above, but by that point you've already arrived at the answer to your 
query.

Clearly, since most of us surveyed were fine with an ORG attribute instead of a 
NET attribute, it would appear to be a non-issue.  No need to make a mountain 
out of an already surveyed molehill.

Also, I assume you will also be manually removing the 'legacy' comments on 
netblocks like the below, once implementation is complete?

Comment:    Reassignment information for this block can be found at
Comment:    rwhois.cogentco.com 4321


-dd