On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain >> the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that >> suffice? > > how to do something new is best discussed by folk who want or need > something new, the folk with skin in the game. so, though i have an > opinion that your suggestion seems reasonable at first blush, it is > worth the pixels on which it is printed. > > what i care about is pola. please do not change what works and which a > lot of fingers and scripts rely.
Randy - Can you expand your response some? I'm not certain I understand whether an option would suffice, nor the pola reference. I do get that we shouldn't be changing default output upon which scripts rely. /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN