Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)
"John R. Levine via NANOG" <[email protected]>
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> If they both reference the same underlying data maybe just leave rwhois > there but make it intentionally slower over time... That seems awfully passive aggressive. For domains, ICANN set a timeline and after a little bit of grumbling, we adapted. I did it, it wasn't hard. While I was at it I switched the IP and ASN lookups to RDAP too. > If they somehow don't reference the same underlying data, well, fix that > first by maybe just making rwhois a proxy to rdap? It occurs to me that if people REALLY REALLY want WHOIS, it would not be terribly hard to write a proxy that puts a WHOIS front end on RDAP servers. Here's one that goes the other way: https://github.com/redirect2me/rdap-proxy R's, John > On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM John R. Levine via NANOG < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> Hello John , Are you the RDAP Sales Person , Because every word >>> you have spoken about (r)whois & the proponent product have been exactly in >>> the vien of trying to Sell ... >> >> I get a 50% commission on every RDAP sale! Wow! >> >> Too bad it's free. But it really does work better than WHOIS. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JHVYG537XTLPHYAO7CO7VGBCM67G2DZV/