[db-wg] running in whios-circles...?

Hi Ronald


On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 03:16, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
<db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
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> I have already made the decision not to wait for the year or two it might
> take for some functionally useful change to percolate up through the
> various relevant departments, organs, and discussion lists.  I've got
> actual work that I actually want to get accomplished this week, not
> nine months from now after a lengthy series of committee reviews.  So
> I've already gone ahead and developed a software work-around for what
> is, I think, a rather self-evident lack of interest on IANA's part in
> the notion of correcting the clearly incorrect outputs delivered by
> IANA's WHOIS server.

Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel? Why don't you use the RIPE
GRS service? It will tell you exactly where any RIR administered
address space is as of yesterday. The mirrored RIR databases are
updated daily by the RIPE NCC. It is probably more accurate and more
reliable than any home built work around.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG

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> Regards,
> rfg
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