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Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:12:28 +0200
On 16-apr-2007, at 12:51, <michael.dillon () bt com> <michael.dillon () bt com> wrote:
In the 21st century, you look at what is available on the shelf andwidely in use on the net and adopt that. Most often this turns out to bea RESTful API that doesn't even need XML, although something like XML-RPC still fits the bill. I still wonder why the widely used LDAPprotocol can't be adopted for whois lookups since it is used everywherein the corporate world. The answer seems to be Not-Invented-Here or "we're netheads and LDAP smells of bellheads", both of which are ridiculous arguments in the today's world.
Come on, let's not get carried away.The problem with the IANA file is that "reserved" is ambiguous and there are other things in there that get in the way of easy parsing. This is easy enough to fix. Geoff Huston wrote a draft suggesting how to do it.
Whois, LDAP and other stuff like that only makes things worse because this requires you to walk through the data rather than have it available in a nice, easy to handle text file.
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- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 15)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Roland Dobbins (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Jim Popovitch (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Sean Donelan (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Chris L. Morrow (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 alex (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 15)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Steve Wright (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Leo Vegoda (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 michael.dillon (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 william(at)elan.net (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 David Conrad (Apr 16)
- Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Jeroen Massar (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Ray Plzak (Apr 16)
- RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8 Bruce Campbell (Apr 16)