Re: Notice to Mariners: loss of navigational aids ("whois consultations")

> Netsol broke whois a lot of times in the past years by changing the
> output format and the world has not ended yet.

they did not break whois, they broke (or changed) their application's
use of the protocol.  naturally, this affected the users of the netsol
application.

> OTOH, many people would scream if the RIPE software would change its
> behaviour.

but it has!  181+ to rpsl.  the interesting difference is that the
format of the data (which the ripe application uses the whois protocol
to transfer) is DOCUMENTED!

randy