Re: Notice to Mariners: loss of navigational aids ("whois consultations")

["Marco d'Itri" <md@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 05, Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 >if there are problems, perhaps the protocol needs work.  but, as it is
 >old, used for many applications, some of which are not even publicly
 >known, we are not likely to get a lot of change without breaking
 >something.  and our culture is somewhat disinclined to breakage.
Netsol broke whois a lot of times in the past years by changing the
output format and the world has not ended yet.
OTOH, many people would scream if the RIPE software would change its
behaviour.

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ciao,
Marco