Count our vote in for that! Personally, I think they should just leave the "fine print" stuff for the bone-heads(R.Com, The V-Dorks, Etc.), to use on their whois and not jump on that particular bandwagon as it goes by, but if not, we'll take a restricted whois that outputs "clean" data for RSP's only, too. -Mark
Mark Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Planet Nic http://www.planetnic.us ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Chvostek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:22:25AM -0500, Mike Allen wrote: > > > > I guess we will just have a separate link to the SRS who-is and let them > > deal with the extra bandwidth for the TLD's they sell ;) > > It's no extra bandwidth to OpenSRS for you to point to their whois > rather than run a whois "proxy" that queries their server. Whether > they pass the data to you or directly to your customers, they're still > handing out the data. > > The only extra data is the 1.5K of fine print, which almost triples the > bytes of the average whois query, regardless of recipient. See Ross' > email re the Tucows Whois Access Terms. I didn't get an impression from > Ross' post as to whether a URL pointer like that was in the works, but > it would certainly save some bandwidth. > > In my view, a "bare-bones" whois for use only by RSPs, IP-restricted, > perhaps with an easily parsed RIPE-style output format, would be > invaluable. > > -- > Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598-0000 > it.canada - hosting and development http://www.it.ca/ >
