[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] The Future of the RIPE Database Proxy Service

> > Time to drop something which is only used by 4 people
> It is not only used by 4 people, it's used by 4 *services*.

Perhaps wrong choice of terminology and should have been services |
subscribers, but you knew what I meant ;)

> Basically the proxy service is the feature that a few services (those 4)
> can add a field to the request that specifies that they query the
> database on behalf of an end-user and they provide that end-user's IP
> address in the request so that the RIPE Whois server can apply rate
> limits to that end-user.

Yes, I'm (after the start of the discussion) aware of what it is and how it
works ...

> To give an example: one of them is at
> http://www.geektools.com/whois.php.

And I'm so glad to be (as a paying RIPE member, and as an ICANN accredited
domain registrar running whois servers) funding their business model of
providing a "service" with adsense plastered all over the page(s) querying
"my" databases ...

> The RIPE NCC has a responsibility for all internet users, not only its
> own members...

That's a whole separate discussion ...

Rob