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

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

"I want the RIRs to do this so I don't have to do it."

then some time later

"Why are the RIRs charging so much in renewal fees?"



On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 3:05 AM borg--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> Actually, I think RIRs could actually run proxy themselfs, and
> generate WHOIS reply based on RDAP data. Why not?
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
>
> From: Nick Hilliard via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
> To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog () lists nanog org>
> Cc: John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com>, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
> Subject: Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the
> Future
>     of ARIN???s Directory Services)
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:28:43 +0100
>
> John R. Levine via NANOG wrote on 23/08/2026 23:22:
> > It occurs to me that if people REALLY REALLY want WHOIS, it would not be
> > terribly hard to write a proxy that puts a WHOIS front end on RDAP
> servers.
>
> Or even simpler:
>
> $ brew install rdap
> $ echo alias whois rdap >> ~/.bashrc
> $ . ~/.bashrc
>
> As a benefit of this, you'll even get parsable yaml (or json / xml if you
> want
> that instead), instead of the unstructured mess you get with whois.
>
> Nick
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