On 09/16/11 08:35, John Curran wrote:
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com]
Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05
To: John Curran
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please
feel free to submit it.
simple. don't.
if you want to do something new, don't call it whois.
randy
Or call it whois and offer the service somewhere else.. Just not in a way that
breaks everything.
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?
I think this would be a good way to proceed. John, has this been
suggested as part of ASCP and does it need to be? If so, I can do it.
We would also need to understand if there would be any disruption to
users of whois caused by changing the default output back to the
traditional output.
Thanks to Randy and John for turning this into a reasonable discussion.
michael
