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On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew - Supernews wrote: "william" == william(at)elan net <[email protected]> writes:william> The above line is as clear as it gets (if the other two william> mentions that data is to be made available to public is not william> enough), so there this argument that rwhois should be made william> available only to ARIN is now against ARIN's policies and william> whoever you know who is still making it should be pointed to william> URL I listed. NetRange: 4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255 ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.level3.net:4321 % telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 Trying 209.244.1.179... telnet: connect to address 209.244.1.179: Operation timed out Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet... Its kind of hard for ARIN to enforce its policies on L3 when they have a /8 already and are not likely to ask for additional allocation... But obviously L3 is not giving a very good example for others, so we can all now say - don't be like L3 :) A more pro-active approach maybe to setup "arin-policy-ignorant" list of ip providers kind-of like rfc-ignorant, maybe then this will make them rethink their position and open rwhois server to the public - but I consider creation of such a list to be a last resort effort if all other efforts to convince providers like L3 to follow policies and enter swips and rwhois data fail and giving them another year and putting more pressure not only in private but also public forums like NANOG is probably better. --- William Leibzon Elan Networks [email protected]
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