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

[Adam Maloney via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

-----Original Message-----
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us> 

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 4:05 AM Adam Maloney via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > Would it not need security updates?  Testing the updates before (so maybe a separate test environment), and testing 
> > after?
> >
> > However infrequent, someone needs to be paid to do those things. Which costs money.

> Hi Adam,

> Any plausible WHOIS retirement schedule has a period of time in which results are produced for both WHOIS and RDAP, 
> right? ARIN proposed about 3 years IIRC.

<snip the rest of William's very well thought out response>

My questions were meant to be rhetorical, not to stake out a position.  I was just pointing out that the assertion "You 
set it up once and forget it, probably forever" was a bit pie-in-the-sky (for any solution). 

</delurk>
Adam

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