Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy () psg com]
> > Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05
> > To: John Curran
> > Cc: NANOG list
> > Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
> >
> > > If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please
> > > feel free to submit it.
> >
> > simple.  don't.
> >
> > if you want to do something new, don't call it whois.
> >
> > randy
>
> Or call it whois and offer the service somewhere else.. Just not in a way that breaks everything.

One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain 
the new hierarchical output  No flag = no output change.  Would that 
suffice?

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN