[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] The Future of the RIPE Database Proxy Service
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Rob Golding
rob.golding at astutium.com
Mon Mar 11 23:17:40 CET 2013
> > 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
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