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Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service
From: Michael Dillon <wavetossed () googlemail com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:26:19 +0100
Apparently we're supposed to be going all Web 2.0 now.
Web 2.0 can handle bulk transfers of data just fine. I wonder if this is somehow related to privacy and data protection laws. Just recently, RIPE announced that they were going to block bulk transfers as a result of data protection laws, presumably because some law has just changed. Obviously ARIN is under a different legal regime than RIPE, however data protection has recently been a hot button issue in the USA and it is possible that something similar will happen. Given the importance of case law in the USA, as opposed to legislation, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of legal review going on. But again, as far as technology goes, HTTP is a superior file transfer protocol to FTP, so the move to Web 2.0 RESTful transactions over HTTP does not give any technical reason to stop bulk transfers. In fact, it may just be an oversight so you should really ask them Clearly, if nobody bothers to ask about bulk transfers, then nobody uses them and nobody cares, so shutting them down is the right thing to do. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Mark Kosters (Jun 04)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Jason Lewis (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Seth Mattinen (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Brandon Galbraith (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Mark Kosters (Jun 11)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Michael Dillon (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Jason Lewis (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Rubens Kuhl (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service James Hess (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Seth Mattinen (Jun 10)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service John Curran (Jun 12)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Randy Bush (Jun 12)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service John Curran (Jun 12)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Randy Bush (Jun 12)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service John Curran (Jun 12)
- Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service Jason Lewis (Jun 10)