Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)

["babydr DBA James W. Laferriere via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>]

	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 ...

        My opinion ,  JimL

On Sat, 22 Aug 2026, John R. Levine via NANOG wrote:
> > As it stands now, every time i use the whois web client (couple times a 
> > week), it never loads the first time (on any device and on any network i?m 
> > on) and i have to reload the page.
>
> WHOIS is a very old protocol originally defined in RFC 812 in 1982 and 
> slightly updated by RFCs 954 and 3912.  It is much older than the web and has 
> nothing to do with the web.  There are web pages that fetch WHOIS info 
> (perhaps using RDAP) and display it, but that's something else.
>
> > How hard and expensive can it be to keep a whois webpage up and running?
>
> I don't know, but honestly, who cares.  Here is a dandy RDAP client that runs 
> entirely in your browser.
>
> https://client.rdap.org/
>
> R's,
> John
>
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