Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

[Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:

> On 6/10/2010 11:46, Jason Lewis wrote:
> > I just found out that with the move to this new service that the bulk
> > access FTP is going to be phased out.  By design, there will be no way
> > to automate the bulk download of this data.
> >
> > Is anyone else using the data in an environment that will be seriously
> > impacted by this change?
>
>
> Apparently we're supposed to be going all Web 2.0 now.
>
> ~Seth
Nothing wrong with having a nicer interface, but hopefully not at the
expense of bulk data. If it's a huge issue to support FTP data transfers,
they could at least provide a means through the web service to get bulk data
intelligently.

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