Proposal to change default source search behavior in the whois server

Currently, the RIPE whois server returns a result from a single-source
(RIPE) search by default.  One needs to pass a -a flag in order to obtain
multiple-source returns.  Because of this behaviour in conjunction with the
necessity to allow a "defaulted" query to return inetnums, the architecture
of the database is limited to a single source.  For those organisations who
may wish to run their own registry and participate in mirroring, this poses
a considerable issue.

I propose that the behaviour be modified so that the default would be to
return a single-match first-hit from multiple-source search.  That is, a
query will return only one result but it will search through the source
search order and return the first match it finds rather than simply stopping
at the RIPEdb.


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